This is an analysis of the poem To Autumn that begins with:

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stainèd
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXbXbcXXc bcXaXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110100111 0010011111 0111011111 1111010111 1101000111 11010101110 0101100100 0111100101 1011010101 1010110101 11010110010 1101110101 0100011101 01110101101 0101110001 1101010111 11100111001 11011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 411
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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