Improvisations: Light And Snow: 07 by Conrad Potter Aiken: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 07 that begins with:

The day opens with the brown light of snowfall
And past the window snowflakes fall and fall....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXabXbcXXbXcXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100011010 1101011111 11011111111 100101110 11000101101 110111111 11100100101110 11100111 1110111111111010 110101111 111111101 00010110100011 111110100010 0111 01111110011 1110 101011011101 001101100111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 787
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.

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