This is an analysis of the poem At Washington that begins with:
WITH a cold and wintry noon-light.
On its roofs and steeples shed,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcbcbbdedeecfcffdgdgghihiijkjkkdldlljmjmmbbdbbjejeejljlldadaahahaadndXneaeaacncXnbabaaeaeaahghXgdldllhbhbbfofoopapaadgdggdhdhhfnfnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 135,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111011 1011101 111001111 0011101 101010111011110 10111010 1110101 11101010 1110111 1010011100011101 10111110 01010111 11001110 1010111 10101001001100101 101110010 1011101 11111010 1011001 101110100011011 11101110 1010101 110111010 1010111 101110101010111 10111010 1110100 10101010 1011101 0010100101111101 001001110 1010101 10111010 1010111 001000101011101 10101010 1010111 11101010 1010101 101110101000111 100101010 1110101 01111010 1010101 111110100110101 10111010 1000111 10101110 1011111 101110101011001 10011010 1010101 10101010 00100101 101010101010101 10001010 100011 101000010 1010101 101010101000101 11111110 0010101 10011110 1101101 0010111011111001 10101010 1000101 10111010 10010111 0010111110011001 10101010 1011101 11111010 0010111 101010101011000 11100010 0010111 11001010 1010101 101111111000101 11101110 1110111 10101010 1111101 101010101011101 10111010 0011101 11101010 0010101 101011101010101 11110010 1111101 101001010 00100111 1011100101110001 11101110 1011101 10011010 0010111 1011101000011101 00101110 0011101 11100110 1110111 101010100010111 10101110 1110111 10100110 1111101 1110001010001101 00101111 0010111 10101010 1011001 100010101010001 11101010 1110101 10101010 10011101 111111000010011 000101110 1111111 10011110 1100111 101010101010101 11111110 1000101 11101010 0111101 11101010111111 111110101 1110011 11101011 1010111 101110101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5222
- Average number of words per stanza: 943
- Amount of lines: 135
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, of, to, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, with are repeated.
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