Analysis of Autumn Song
Dante Alighieri 1265 (Florence) – 1321 (Ravenna)
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
Laid on it for a covering,
And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
And how the swift beat of the brain
Falters because it is in vain,
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
Knowest thou not? and how the chief
Of joys seems--not to suffer pain?
Know'st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
Bound up at length for harvesting,
And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?
Scheme | AabbA ccAac AabbA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111101101 10110101 11110100 01110101 010101101 01011101 10011101 010101101 1110101 11111101 1111101101 10111011 11111100 01110101 010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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