This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 10 that begins with:
It is night time, and cold, and snow is falling,
And no wind grieves the walls....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbbcdcXbXaaXdXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111111010 111101 00110101011 01011111 01110011010 010010010001 1010100010110 1010011 1111001001001010 01100111 1001001 1111001 01110010 11001110 1101011010 1000110011010 111001 10010010010 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 758
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
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 the is repeated.
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