This is an analysis of the poem Absences that begins with:
It's snowing this afternoon and there are no flowers.
There is only this sound of falling, quiet and remote,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaXb cddcXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101111110 10100101010101 1010001010011 0011010110101 101010010100 1011011101 11011110001 10100001111 11110 111110101 110110110101001 0100100101001010 101001001101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, white are repeated.
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