Analysis of Picture of Autumn

Thomas Chatterton 1752 (Bristol) – 1770 (Holborn)



When autumn, bleak and sun-burnt, do appear,
With his gold hand gilting the falling leaf,
Bringing up winter to fulfil the year,
Bearing upon his back the riped sheaf;
When all the hills with woody seed are white,
When levying fires, and lemes, do meet from far the sight:
When the fair apple, rudde as even sky,
Do bend the tree unto the fructile ground.
When juicy pears, and berries of black dye,
Do dance in air and call the eyne around;
Then, be the even foul, or even fair,
Methinks my hearte's joy is stained with some care.


Scheme ABABCCDEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011101 111110101 101101101 100111011 1101110111 11001001111101 1011011101 110110011 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 111111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 529
Words 101
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 411
Words per stanza (avg) 99
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton was an English poet and forger of pseudo-medieval poetry. He committed suicide, dying of arsenic poisoning. His works and death were much discussed posthumously and had an influence on the Romantic movement. more…

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