This is an analysis of the poem A Man Perishing In The Snow: From Whence Reflections Are Raised On The Miseries Of Life. that begins with:
As thus the snows arise; and foul and fierce,
All winter drives along the darken'd air;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdbcbeafgXhcXhbhcccihXbjkdahgabbdfhXacXacahccghjgbccbXaicdhkcaicdbdXhckfheak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 79,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101011111 1101010101 0011010101 10001110101 0011011101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0101111101 0101010101 1001010101 1101111101 01001011101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101000101 1001110101 1111100101 11010101001 1001010011 1101010001 0101100001 01001010101 0101010001 1101110101 11000101001 0011110101 1011000101 1101011111 0101000101 10101010001 1001010101 1011000101 0101010101 01111100101 01011010101 0101010101 00010101110 0101010001 1111011101 1111011101 0101010111 11001010101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101110001 11110100101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 101010001 11010001001 11010011101 11010001111 1101011101 1001011101 0111110101 0101110101 0100111101 1101000101 0101001101 0101010001 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0101101101 11101010111 0111010101 1101010101 11010100101 1001011101 11010001101 0101010011 1011010001 0101110101 10010101001 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3442
- Average number of words per stanza: 585
- Amount of lines: 79
- 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; his, of, nor, they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, nor are repeated.
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