This is an analysis of the poem White Nassau that begins with:
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town;
You can hear the groping ferries as they hoot each other down;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeE ffaa XX Xgg Xhhii jjee kkcjc ccaa kkcc kXkk cXchh ccXkk ggjj hXhaaXaaeE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,2,3,5,4,5,4,4,4,5,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101010101010101 111010101111101 001000101101001 1101010010111 11101110110101 001000101010111 01010101010101 11101010110101 1111010111111 1111010111101 1101110010101 01001000011001 1101110110111 1101110010101 0111010010101 1101010010101 11110101 101101 11001010111110 11110101010001 1101010010001 1001000 110111 0100110110101 1101010101111 0110010110001 1111111111101 101110101010111 01101010010111 101100100010001 0001110010111 1101110100101 00111010110101 0101010 110101 1001111110101 11010101011001 10101010110001 11110100111101 10101110010101 1111110010101 1101110100101 11100010110101 1001011010111 11010111111000 10101110010111 101010101010101 101001101011101 00101010 11011101 101010101010001 101011100010001 11010101010101 11010111010111 1100100 010101 111111100011101 1100010110111 101000101010001 101011101110111 01011101110101 001010101011101 011 10100110111 10101110100101 1101011110101 00110101010101 1010101010101011 1111110100101 01001000011001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, her, as, in, their, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, she, by are repeated.
The author used the same word with at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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