Analysis of Autumnal



Pale amber sunlight falls across
The reddening October trees,
That hardly sway before a breeze
As soft as summer: summer's loss
Seems little, dear! on days like these.

Let misty autumn be our part!
The twilight of the year is sweet:
Where shadow and the darkness meet
Our love, a twilight of the heart
Eludes a little time's deceit.

Are we not better and at home
In dreamful Autumn, we who deem
No harvest joy is worth a dream?
A little while and night shall come,
A little while, then, let us dream.

Beyond the pearled horizons lie
Winter and night: awaiting these
We garner this poor hour of ease,
Until love turn from us and die
Beneath the drear November trees.


Scheme ABBAB CDDCD XEEXE FBBFB
Poetic Form Etheree  (35%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1101101 010101 11010101 11110101 11011111 110101101 0110111 1100101 10101101 01010101 11110011 0110111 11011101 01010111 01011111 01010101 10010101 110111011 01111101 01010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 654
Words 124
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 131
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ernest Christopher Dowson

Ernest Christopher Dowson was born in 1867 at Lea in Kent England he was an English poet novelist and writer of short stories associated with the Decadent movement Most of his life was spent in France more…

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