This is an analysis of the poem The Falling Of The Leaves that begins with:
AUTUMN is over the long leaves that love us,
And over the mice in the barley sheaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010011111 1100100101 10010010011 1100111101 0100010011011 1101111111 1111010010011 00110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; leaves, of, us, and are repeated.
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