Analysis of Autumn
Autumn brings a blush to countryside
as if the Earth had seen too much
of lovers from the Summer past
and with a deep red glow of modesty
prepares to shed her leafy negligee
and sleep in robes of whitest purity
until seduced again by temptations
of a youthful Spring.
Scheme | ABCDEDFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101110 11011111 11010101 0101111100 01110101 0101110100 0101011010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 260 |
Words | 50 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 217 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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