This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow that begins with:

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The girl in the room beneath ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdeeeee X fgaaehai X jkdhelaXeghajdilmah X noihnhdii a emckkpqi a ledhcejlhr X mmgjdmjejiarjbifocc X ceacebckarcdpr rdcja X aHaad eeimilaHkeddl h peseei hidelp pfhcata a eldiaXle rrrdd a X clXaqhtdhfdcrqeXh pdcpXldih X hdhphakjse lalhmckeici X cnebhqa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,19,1,9,1,8,1,10,1,19,1,14,5,1,5,13,1,6,6,7,1,8,5,1,1,17,9,1,10,11,1,7,1,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 0100101 011001 110101 0110111 1010011011011 1111001001 110110000101 11111000101 1 111011010110 101011010101101 0101010011 111011 111001001101 111010010100 100101 110101011101 1 011010 110101110001101 0101010 111001011010 10001011011001 01101011 110101111001 0111010111001000 01101001 1110101001101 10101001 1111 01101110 1000101 110111000 101010011 011010010 101000111011 10111000010 1 1011110111001010 1101010010 1110000011 10101010110101011 11101010 111011101 101001001 11101010 1111011011 1 1110111110100 01010101 11100001 1111110010 111110010 111100 111011111101001 01011 1 0011101111 100101101111 1111 111101100111 11011101001 1001 11010010110 1000101101100101 101110 001111 1 01100011010 1101011111 11011111111 100101110 11000101101 110111111 11100100101110 11100111 1110111111111010 110101111 111111101 00010110100011 111110100010 0111 01111110011 1110 101011011101 001101100111 1110101 1 10101111110 1011101001101 10001011 01111001 10101 1111110110111 01110 110110011 010111001 00101011 1101100111011 01010011110110010 11101010010001110 01111 11011111 1101011101 10111101100101 101110110 01111101 1 0110101 1010 0111110111 1100101 01111111101001 11101101110 1101100101 1011110111011 1010110011 001011 111001111011 1110101 1010 1100111111100 11111 111111111 10111010 1001 1 00111111010 111101 00110101011 01011111 01110011010 010010010001 1010100010110 1010011 1111001001001010 01100111 1001001 1111001 01110010 11001110 1101011010 1000110011010 111001 10010010010 1011101 1 111101010 1011101 1010111001010 1100111 10100111101 11011001001100 010101 10101111101 111101 10111010110101101 1111011001 110011001 110110010 111110110010101 1 11011101010 11110101101011 110101110010101 10011001010011 1001001010101 0101010010 111010111011101 1100000110010 1110010101011 1011011010 1110101 100100101011001 1110101011101 10100100111011 01111 101110101 100011 1110101111100 10101101110 0101 010100101110 01011010011 01100101 11111101001 11110111 10101011 1 1101111010111 00101011010 00111101010 110 1010111 1011001101 11001101 110100101010 11000011 010010100110 1011111 11111111 1011111 111111000100100 1111000001 111011010 10011 0101001 11 11110111010 001101010 1 1111010101 11110 01100111 111101 1001 1111011 11111 1 01000100111 110101 110101001011 10100101 01001000101011 0111011011 01000001 1111110101001 0100101010 101010001 0011011 0100101010 1001011010101 010110100 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; she, of, and, i, you, me, in, over, this, lamps are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, many, the, how, or, so, as, a are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me, them, there are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.

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