This is an analysis of the poem Wolf Knife that begins with:
In the mid August, in the second year
of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdefdXdc dXghfbi XjXhkalflhb klkXljXibiimc Xcmcjfie ciXXidjgllihXdfijbhjjllf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,11,13,8,24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011000101 0111010100111010 110111011 0100101 011011001110 001010101011 1111111010 0111011110101 01010111 1010100100 001 111111110011 101111111010011 110101101111 1001010 110011010 0110101001010 1101 1011 11111011 100100110 10111010 11010010 101001111 0101111101 1011010100110 111100101011 10110 010010 10111011101 10101011 11111010 11100101110 1111101 0011010 111001010 11110010111 0010101001010 10111 1111 0001001101 11111 10101101010110110 1101111 10011001011 11101111 01010 110010110100 10111001 101001 01000101101011 101 11010010101111000 01010011 0101001 11000010011 11111 1001 0010011111 110001011101 1101 10 1111001001110010101 1011011001000100 10010010110 0100100110 0101111111010 0110 1000110111 11001 0101111 00100101111 1010001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 73
- 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; and, we, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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