This is an analysis of the poem The Auroras of Autumn that begins with:
This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless.
His head is air. Beneath his tip at night...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xab Xcd aeb Xef ghi eeg cef jhj X eak ghl aif jfi aae mnh hjo gfj X gpp eje ggb jjg mfj pap qee jij X Xgj egh ore bpi bee feg naf frj b gee gXs egp ieq pee meh Xgr gbi b elc jbj oja Xge ejn haj jeg epj X Xag jds fjb krX gfi afX lgX jff X gpg fan gjs fkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00101010100 0101010111 110111101001 100010101001 01010101001 01010010101 00101010001 1111110100 1010110110101 0011010100 11001110100 101010100101 0001010101 1111000101 001011110101 00101010001 01011111100 010000100100 00010111001 10101010001 11111001101 11111111001 110101010100 01010100001 1 11010100101 010101001 1101010100 10101110100 0110010100101 1101010101 01010001001 1110010111 1011010110101 1010110100101 1010100100010 01010010101 1101000101 01000100100100 0101001101 01010011101 01100110100 0101010111 10101110101 011010110101 10110101101001 00101000111 11011000101 010011101101 1 11010100101 0100010101 1101011001 010010001101 001001010101 100111100101 1100010101 1110001011 1111011100 11110011001 1110011111 0100010101 0111010101 0101010101 11110010001 10100011111 0101010101 0111100100 1001011101 1111010101 0100010101 0101010101 11101010101 010010001001 1 11010100100 0100110100101 01010110101 111010010001 111011101111 01101011111 1100010001 110100101100 111010100101 11110101101 101011011100 0101010011 0101110101 10101011101 110110100101 01010011001 101010110101 0100100100011 10110101010 1101110011 010010100100 0111011101 1100111100 01110000101 1 010010100001 110010101001 101011111101 0101010001 0101011001000 0100010100 110010101001 1001101100 01011100101 0101010101 100100101101 11010111001 01100101001010 0101001001 010011001101 01010000101 0101001111 11001000100 1100010101 110001111 10101010100 0101101100 11111011011 101011101101 1 00010010101 0101110101 11010110111 1101000101 0101011001 0101010011 01010000101 11101000111 001010011001 11101011000 101010001001 0111011101 0100010101 110100010111 11000100100 1101010100 0100010111 01011110001 0010010010101 1001011100 100111001001 1101001101 11010010101 01011011101 1 0110101011100 11100010001 100110010101 00101010111 1010100110101 110100110010 01011111001 1010010100110 1100010010110 1001100101 01110110100 00111110100 0111111101 0100110111 1001101101 11110101101 01001011111 011111100100 10111110011 01101000101 1101010001 1111010101 1110011111 1010010101001 1 11011010100 101001101011 00010101101 010000100001 001010100001 1110101100100 10110010100 11100010001 1010111001 110010001001 101110100101 10111010011 00101010101 1111011001 001001000000 1111110101 01010011100 11000011111 110010110111 1111000100 100111001001 100100101001 001111010011 01001110111 1 10110100100 00100100011001 10001000101 1011011111 11110111010 11001010101 001101111101 1111001001 0111110101 110110100101 010111111001 0100010001 010111101 101001010001 110101100111 110110001101 01010000100 11111011111 01110111001 1101110111 1011010100 01101100101 1111010011 111010010101 1 10101000101 11101000100 101010010101 11110101100 01010010101 0100110101 1001010101 0101000101 100111001 1101101101 10101000101 11000100100 1001010101 1101100100 00100010001 1001000101 0100101010 01001010111 010101100001 0101010101 1011111111 01100110101 0010001110111 10101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 89
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 250
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these, and, of, or, being, its, she, he, yes, to, heaven, in, even, it, be, exists, we, unhappy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words another, in, the, and, he, of, these, there, that, like, as, this, almost are repeated.
The author used the same words this, and, the, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tales, exists are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase almost connects the lines.
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