This is an analysis of the poem The Mail Cutter that begins with:
The ice had not even begun to break,
no boat could possibly sail yet, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd efde gXXc hibc iXca fdid XiXc jcbX bkcb dkcf hXbj XXdc kfcX dXdc jikX gifg iXdg bXXd XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101001 11110011 1010100110110 011011010 010101001 0010100 0100011 1001001 010101101 1001101 101110 101001011 110111 001000100 011011 1011 11101110 1001010 010101 10101010 10101010101 001110 100100 1010110101 1010111100 01100101000 1110011 01011 110111110 0111010 111101 1111101 100111011 110101011 11101111101 10111011 1110101 100101110 1101000101 1110010101 11011001 11101011 101000101 0010111010 10101010101 11011010100 1001111 1010011 10101111010 1110111 1011 011110101101 101001010010 01010010 11110010 110011101 1100101110 110110100 1101110 0101110110 10101101 0100110100100 101011001010 110111011 11011000 011110010 1110101011 1001011 11001111 11010111 1111001010 111101010 1 0101101000101010101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, as, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, who are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Mail Cutter;
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