This is an analysis of the poem An Autumn Reverie that begins with:
Alas! Beautiful Summer now hath fled,
And the face of Nature doth seem dead, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacc deee aacc ffed ggaa aaaa ffaa hhde ahcc iiaaXcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110010111 101010111 101110110101 10101100101 01000101111 100110000011 0101001110001 1101010111 011111101010001 1010110101 111101101 10101101001 11111010101001 111111101001 110111101 11100110110101 1100101001001 100010111110011 1100001111001 101011101011 0110010001001 1110000110101 11011010101 10111010111 101111110001 1011101111 0100010010101 1101110010010101 1100101111101 1101110001111 10101011111101 0101101010111 011011100111 101011101101 110100111011 1011111110011 0101010110101 1110111001 101101011 01001110110101 11001000101010 010110010110 101111110001101001 1011100111001 110010110001 100101011 1001101110001 01001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, work, to, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, while are repeated.
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