This is an analysis of October by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Beauty has a tarnished dress,
And a patchwork cloak of cloth…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcbc bdXd dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 1011101 110100 1101 11101 1010101 1110101 01110 1010011 110101 0110100 010111 10111101 1110101 01010101 1111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16