This is an analysis of the poem Mad As The Mist And Snow that begins with:
Bolt and bar the shutter,
For the foul winds blow:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcB cbXbcB XbXXaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 10111 11111101 11101 11011110 110111 1011101 10101 11010101 110001 011110001 110111 11111111 111101 11011101 110101 11010100 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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