This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 08 that begins with:
Many things perplex me and leave me troubled,
Many things are locked away in the white book of stars...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabXaXcdaeXddeaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10101111110 1011101001101 10001011 01111001 10101 1111110110111 01110 110110011 010111001 00101011 1101100111011 01010011110110010 11101010010001110 01111 11011111 1101011101 10111101100101 101110110 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 772
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; me, and, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words many, and, the, how are repeated.
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