This is an analysis of the poem London in Snow that begins with:
White, white they lie, smoke-smitten roofs and streets,-
Their yearlong black distemper blanched away;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede fgXg XdXdXdfdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110111 11110101001 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 0101111101 1101010101 0111110101 0101010101 01110100101 01001011101 1101010111 11010101100 1001110111 1111010011 1101010101 010101001010 1111010101 1101010101 0101010011 1101110111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; their, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word their is repeated.
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