This is an analysis of the poem Lost In The Mist that begins with:
THE thin white snow-streaks pencilling
That mountain's shoulder gray, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaaabbcb bdedbfgf hdidjaka ehkhegeglkdkebeb Ekbkedad Eeledhkh djijXgeg cmjmkXhg hnjnXkak agkgbgkg hXkgcjgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,16,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111100 110101 10010111 110101 10010101 100101 10110101 110111 110101111 111111 10010101 010101 110101101 010101 111011101 101101 11110101 000101 111111110 111111 10110101 011101 11111111 111111 11111101 100101 10111011 111101 110101001 1101001 01010101 010111 11111111 111111 11110101 101101 101010101 110101 11110111 011101 01010101 011111 011010110 011001 11111111 010101 11001101 111101 01010101 111111 11001101 110101 11110001 111101 10111111 100101 11010001 010101 010100010 010101 11100101 111101 110010111 110101 11111101 111111 11111101 101101 01110101 0101110 11110010 111101 110111001 100101 01110101 110111 111100101 0101001 101111001 111101 11110101 0111001 11100101 110101 000111010 101101 01110101 011101 1111 1001 011101 11111101 110101 11111111 010101 11110101 10011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; light, no, that, i, lost, saved are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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