This is an analysis of the poem From Shadow that begins with:
Now the November skies,
And the clouds that are thin and gray,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaccdeddefefggaXbc hihdXibadeaji ifkekXeccgXgaiaaeaeccccfeefjcjdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,13,34,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 10111111 1100101 010111 0010101 110111 1010111001 1001101 1001 10111011 010101 0100101 01001 1101101 111001001 1101111 0010101 1110110 1011111 11100101 0101101 0101001 100111 0100111 01001011 10100101 1001111 1001011 1111001 10011101 110111 11111010 01010100 01001011 1001101 1101001 001110001 1011111 10110101 0110111 1100101 100101 100101 101101 00111101 01011001 001001001 01011011 10100101 111001101 1101001 111001001 01001010 11001011 0011011 11001101 110101 01101101 10101111 01011010 10101001 101110010 0110111 11001 0011001 001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 521
- Average number of words per stanza: 100
- Amount of lines: 66
- 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; and, for, that, in, till are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words its, till are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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