This is an analysis of the poem The Fog that begins with:
The fog slunk down from Labrador, stealthy, sure, and slow,
Southwardly shifting, far inshore, so never a man might know... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccaA ddeeffaA ffggeeaA hhaaiiaA ffjjddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010110111 100101111100111 101010111100101 10101001011110101 100100101100111 10111001011010111 10100111111011101 0111010110111 101011111111101 10111101010100101 1111101010100101 1101001011011101 1011111011110111 1011101011010101 11011111111101 10111010110111 10111011011111001 0111001011010101 111111011011111 1111101010100101 1010111111100101 101111110100101 111011111100011 10111010110111 11001101110011101 1111101111011101 11101110110110101 01001101010101101 0110110110110101 01001011011100111 0111101110001101 10111010110111 1100111110111101 1010101011010101 101001101010010101 1011001111011111 11111010101110101 1101101010010101 10101011100111101 10111010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 563
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 70 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, on, of, ye, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, and, the, when are repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word slow at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Fog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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