This is an analysis of the poem Smoke Rose Gold that begins with:

THE DOME of the capitol looks to the Potomac river.
Out of haze over the sunset,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010010010001010 10110011 100111 11110011 110110100110111 011001101 0100110100101 0111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words out, the are repeated.

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  • summary of Smoke Rose Gold;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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