This is an analysis of the poem The Impervious Iceberg that begins with:
I saw him stand, a Polar man,
Cold anger in his frigid eye,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcX dada efef gcgc cXch dcdc ebeb cbcb didi dcdc hhhh ciji ikik bXbj iXiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11110101 11000101 10010101 111100111 10010101 01011111 10010111 01010100 01010011 10010101 1001101 01110100 01011001 11110001 01110101 01001001 01010101 11001111 01011111 10000101 01110101 01010110 11110101 11010111 11010100 01110101 11011101 11010101 11010101 110010011 11010101 110100101 11110101 01110111 11110101 10010011 11110010 01010111 10011101 110100101 01110101 110101010 110010111 11000001 11110111 01010101 11011101 1110101 11111101 11010101 01110011 01010001 01000101 11010101 11011101 11000111 11001101 110101110 11010101 11010101 11110001 11110110 11010001 11000100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, i are repeated.
The author used the same words his, i, one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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