This is an analysis of A November Note by Alfred Austin.

Why, throstle, do you sing
In this November haze?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcabc decdec fgafga hiehie dahdaX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 11111 000101 101111 1110001 111101 011101 100101 110111 1010101 100101 110101 1011111 111111 110111 010011 010101 110001 101111 111111 010101 110011 110001 1101001 101101 110111 1100001 110001 000111 110111 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

that