This is an analysis of the poem The Andante Of Snakes that begins with:
They weave a slow andante as in sleep,
Scaled yellow, swampy black, plague-spotted white; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef cgcg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011101 0111011111 0100010100 0101010111 10110010001 100010101000 0101010001 0101111111 1111101101 0101011001 11001100001 1100010111 0111010100 1111100101 1101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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.
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