This is an analysis of the poem The Transfixed that begins with:
Black in the snow and fog,
at the great lighted airshaft, their bums rounded, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXXcde eebX dXbdcaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111 10110101110 1111101110 10101001011 11011111 011110010011 110000110 01000111111 111001011001 00101001111010 11111110 101010010101 110010101011 10101101111 11111001011 1111100110100 11111011011 0101010101101 11010111101 01110101011 1111011111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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