This is an analysis of the poem Wallace Ferguson that begins with:

There at Geneva where Mt. Blanc floated above
The wine-hued lake like a cloud, when a breeze was blown...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabcdeXXXcdXfbefd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101011111001 011110110111 1011010110101 1010011101 10100101110010 010101001001 1010100100101 101010011111 110101110101 0111111100101 11000111001110 10101111111 11001011001011 11110111001 110101011111 1111011110101 111100101001 111101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 880
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, you, in are repeated.

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