This is an analysis of Fall by Edward Hirsch.
Fall, falling, fallen. That's the way the season
Changes its tense in the long-haired maples…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaacdbXXaedfbcXcXcfeecdeXbe
- Stanza lengths: 29,
- Metre: 11010101010 1001001110 1101010111 101110001001010 001001010011 010101110111 100001001010001 111011010001 00100110100010100 10100101010010 1010100011101 10011110010 01100100111011 10001001010101 1011001100110 1011101010110 1010010010010 01010010101110 101111101101 011011010111 101011010100110 01110101001011 101011000101010 1100110011010 1110010001111 1001100100110 10110101001 0001011001110 000101011011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, us
Anaphora
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