This is an analysis of the poem Lady Icicle that begins with:
Little Lady Icicle is dreaming in the north-land
And gleaming in the north-land, her pillow all a-glow; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccb abXdb aXXdb abeebXabccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101000100011 1100011010101 10111110 01101010 11010100110001 10101000100011 1100011010011 10101010 10101010 11010100010001 10101000100011 1100011011101 10111010 10101110 11010100010001 10101000100011 1100011010111 10101110 10101010 11010100110101 10101000100011 10010111000111 00101010 101010100 1010100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word little at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word snow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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