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
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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