This is an analysis of the poem In A Castle that begins with:
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Over the yawning chimney hangs the fog. Drip -- hiss -- drip -- hiss --... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X Aba cabbd XXaef gbch a ibbjk fl Xechldg ak bc h h bdbX kd blchba a e X aa lalfi ejX bldeiimXm dfe Aa ifl XXlllllllll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,5,5,4,1,5,2,7,2,2,1,1,4,2,6,1,1,1,2,5,3,9,3,2,3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 10010101011111 1011101011111 1101011101101 01111001010100011 0010101011101011011 01100101110100111 011101010101010111 1001111101 001101010011101000 1101010111001011010 01010111101101 11010101010100101 1101110 0101000011011101 001001010101010110 0010111101001001 101101011010110 101101111110100001 0011101111011100101 1011111011111101 10101001100101 0100100110010101001101 01011001110 001010100010110110 10001 110101110101011 1011010110111011 111001110101010101 1101110101010101110 100110010101110101 11010110100101010101 101011 01010110010111011 01011001101100111 0101001010110110 0010110111 011101010 0110 0101011101010 11011010100101 111100001101010 110 01101011100111001 01001 11001111110101 101101010000110101 101110101110111 110101110001110010 110111111101010101 101 11011 11101000111010101 1 01110001001111011 101101 10101001110111001 111110111010101 0101100111001101001 011010101110111001 011 01010010100000100111 01111110011001 10110 10101001010101001 110111011101010 10011110111101 111011101111101 1110110001110101 101011101010110101 111101001011101 0110100101011110 011011001 1001001010100100101 011101101011100 0010101101101 10010101011111 10111011011011101 01010001011101111 101010110010110110 010101101101 1 0010111101 110011101 00101111101 0101011101000101 0010100101 101110101 01010101 1111100101 10100111001
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; drip, hiss, of, and, her, has, he, on, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, and, which are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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