This is an analysis of the poem October that begins with:
Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath!
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbacddcceecee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11110100101 1101010101 1111101111 1011101101 1001011101 0011100101 1000110101 10001010001 0101110111 11111111011 1101011011 1100110101 1111110001 1100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 626
- Average number of words per stanza: 117
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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