This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 05 that begins with:
When I was a boy, and saw bright rows of icicles
In many lengths along a wall...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111110100 01010101 11100001 1111110010 111110010 111100 111011111101001 01011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
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