This is an analysis of Autumn Days by Lord Alfred Douglas.

I have been through the woods to-day
And the leaves were falling,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cdcd adad ebeb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 101010 101101 1010110 101011101 1111 1010111 11101 110101 111111 111101011 111101101 101011001 10110101 1110011111 1110111 11110111 11101010 11101101 111101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

and, as

Anaphora

and, i