This is an analysis of the poem Fog Portrait that begins with:

RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman’s steel face … looking … looking.
Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a fog night; pouring a taffy mass down...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011010111010 1001101001010011100101101100110110101010111010 110110111011001101001101101011111101110101010111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 3
  • Average number of symbols per line: 160 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 29
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Fog Portrait;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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