This is an analysis of the poem Through These Pale Cold Days that begins with:

Through these pale cold days
What dark faces burn... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acbc adad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11101 101100 11111 110111 111101 10101001 1100101 111111 010111 110101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.

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