This is an analysis of October by William Cullen Bryant.

Ay, thou art welcome, heaven's delicious breath!
When woods begin to wear the crimson leaf,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcceecee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11110100101 1101010101 1111101111 1011101101 1001011101 0011100101 1000110101 10001010001 0101110111 11111111011 1101011011 1100110101 1111110001 1100011111
  • 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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