This is an analysis of Autumnal Sonnet by William Allingham.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods,
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbXbabcXacac
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 110101100101 1111011111 1111010001 1001110101 101011101000 11111101001 01010100001 1101010101 11010001001 1011011100 01010010111 0101111111 0101001101 1111010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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