This is an analysis of the poem In The Shadow Of The Palace that begins with:

LET us go out of the fog, John, out of the filmy persistent drizzle on the streets of Stockholm, let us put down the collars of our raincoats, take...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: cinquain
  • Metre: 111100111001001010101011111101001111111110011010 1110101011001010110001010100010010010100111 0001111001011101000111101111101011111101010 10101111110101001010110011110111010100101111010100 111100111111111101110111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 870
  • Average number of words per stanza: 167
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 96 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 19
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, let, us, and, butter are repeated.

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