This is an analysis of the poem Fog that begins with:

Light silken curtain, colorless and soft,
Dreamlike before me floating! what abides... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc Xbde febb cbgb Xfhg eibf Xibh bbab geXa fgjb biXe hdbj kahj jbab eeaf bbaj ijfb fbXb ebeb bXbe eehf eaki bbfb eXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010011 1101110101 011101 0101001 1111110111 1101110101 111111 110101 11110100101 1101111100 110011 110101 11010001001 01010010101 0111001 1010101 1111010100 1101000101 010101 1100101 11011010101 1001010101 100101 1100011 1101110101 11111101101 101101 1100111 11110101001 1101011101 010101 010011 1101010111 1101111101 110101 110101 0011001111 1111011101 101101 110101 10110111101 1101111111 010111 0100101 011000111 1111101111 01101 0100101 1001011111 0101000101 0101011 101111 1101011101 0101110111 101101 1001001 0101000100 10001011111 010101 110111 1111101101 0111010101 010001 011001 01010100101 11011101101 010101 0101001 1011010111 01010101001 001101 011101 110101101 1101110011 110111 1001101 1101010111 1011010111 110101 010101 1101111101 0001010111 110101 001101 1101110101 1101011011 110101 01011 1011010101 10010100111 010101 110101 11010101001 1101100101 101101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, with, i, she are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, she are repeated.

    The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Fog;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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