This is an analysis of the poem To One Coming North that begins with:
At first you'll joy to see the playful snow,
Like white moths trembling on the tropic air, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 11110010101 1100011101 1001010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101010111 0101010101 1111111111 11001111101 1101110111 01010101011 11110100101 10111010101 11011100101 10010011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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