This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 04 that begins with:
On the day when my uncle and I drove to the cemetery,
Rain rattled on the roof of the carriage;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcacXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110111001010 1101010010 1110000011 10101010110101011 11101010 111011101 101001001 11101010 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, on are repeated.
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