This is an analysis of the poem Gradual Clearing that begins with:
Late in the day the fog
wrung itself out like a sponge...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabXcXccdXXXXXcaaeeabXdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1011101 0101 10010100 1010 10010 0111011 001010010 110100 1011010 01011110 100010 0111011 01011000 0100100 10100010 011010010 111000101 10011010 10010001010 011010010 1000001 101001 100100 101 100011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 694
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 26
- 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; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Gradual Clearing;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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