This is an analysis of the poem The Little White Sun that begins with:
THE sky had a gray, gray face,
The touch of the mist was chill, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcC dedecC fgfgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110111 0100111 0111101 10111001 1011110111 1010111101 0111011 0111001 0100111 10101001 101111101 1010111101 1100101 10100101 0101001 1100101 1011110111 1010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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 used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and 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.
The poet repeated the same word through at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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