This is an analysis of the poem Upon A Wasp Chilled With Cold that begins with:
The bear that breathes the northern blast
Did numb, torpedo-like, a wasp... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddddeeaXffeXabddghiiddff ghXbggiijjffkkXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 01011101 1101100110 011111110 10011111 10011111 01011101 10011101 100101010 010101110 11010001 11111111 11110101 11010100 10010110 01001111 10010101 01100001 01001101 01001011 10010101 01010100 11011001 10010001 0101111 11010101 10011101 01110011 11110111 11110100 11101111 01010101 01110101 01101101 111111001 01010101 010100111 01100101 10111111 10010100 111000100 01110101 111101010 1100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 752
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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, her, doth are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word doth is repeated.
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