This is an analysis of the poem The Runaways/ Les Effares that begins with:

Dark against the snow and fog,
At the big lit-up vent,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcdc cXb dbe dXa fea gdf bcg gXf fda gaX fhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 101111 110010 1101010 101010 101011 1101111 011011 0001011 1100110 0100011 101110 1111110 101101 111101 1111001 111110 010111 110111 0101110 010010 11110111 1111010 101101 1111011 1110100 111101 111101 0010100 110101 110111 1000111 010111 111111 111110 001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.

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  • summary of The Runaways/ Les Effares;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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