This is an analysis of the poem An Autumn Evening At Murray Bay that begins with:

Darkly falls the autumn twilight, rustles by the crisp leaf sere,
Sadly wail the lonely night-winds, sweeping sea-ward, chill and drear,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaa Xabb ccdd eeff dddd ggcc aahh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010111010111 101010111011111 101010101011111 10111101001101 101010101010101 101010101010111 111011101111101 001011100011101 101110101011111 101111101011101 111010100010101 1011111010111001 101011101000101 111010100010101 1110001011011101 101100101111101 1110101110000101 001010101111111 1010111000101001 100101100000100101 1011101000100111 101010101010101 1010101101010111 0010101110101011 100010101010011 101010100011101 101011111010101 101010110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 66 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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