Analysis of The Autumn Trees



                              The Autumn Trees
Lift your head, open your eyes and you will see,
One of God's greatest beauties -- the autumn trees.
Yellow like sunshine glows here and there,
Red fills in like fire -- too soon they'll all be bare.

That means snow and cold, biting winds,
It'll be March or April before this stuff ends.
Now comes the flowers and trees budding out,
Birds voices blend singing and sounds as they shout, --
                                Spring is here!

New growth, new life, everywhere to be seen,
The trees, once again, are full and green.
Summer is here, with days warm and long,
Many children are heard singing their favorite song.

School is out, we're free at last,
But before you know it, summer is past.
Then -- lift your head, open your eyes, and you will see,
One of God's, greatest gifts, The Autumn Trees.


Scheme ABACC XXDDX EEFF GGBA
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 11110110111 11110100101 10111101 110110111111 11101101 101111001111 1101001101 11011001111 111 111110111 011011101 101111101 1010111011001 1111111 1011111011 111110110111 1111010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 850
Words 163
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 4, 4
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 36

About this poem

When I was told that a very dear friend had passed away, and was feeling very distraught, my husband took me for a ride in the country to calm me down. Then when we returned from that ride, I came into the house, sat at the table, began to write, and this poem is the end results of God's handiwork. Awesome!

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Written on October 03, 1991

Submitted by corkypidge on August 31, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Rosanne M. Mayes

I started, and continued for many years, to write poems about life in general, just for my own enjoyment of putting the words down on paper. After a lot of poems had stacked up one day, I sat down and read them all. When I finished, I said to myself, "That didn't sound too bad." "I wonder if they could be published." So, I got online and found a publisher, contacted them, and they were interested in seeing what I had. And here I am today, entering a contest! more…

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