This is an analysis of the poem Through Foulest Fogs that begins with:
THROUGH foulest fogs of my own sluggish soul,
Through midnight glooms of all the wide world's guilt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcdcdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1111010111 11001011111 0101010101 110110101 0101010101 10011101010 10110001001 1111010101 1101011110 0101110101 0111011101 0101000101 1100010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; through, of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words through, a are repeated.
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