This is an analysis of the poem The Legend Of St. Mark that begins with:
The day is closing dark and cold,
With roaring blast and sleety showers;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb daea bdfd bgbg fhih caia djkj iakX hhbh dlfl dmdm ndXd jcmc aiei dihi mdbd inin adad acbc bmcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 010111010 11010111 010101010 11100101 010100101 01000101 11011101 11000101 11000101 010111010 11010101 01010101 11010111 01010100 01011101 110001010 01010101 01011101 01000011 11110111 01000101 11011101 11010111 01110101 01110101 11010001 01111111 11111111 110101101 11111111 01011101 11110101 11010101 11010101 11010011 11010101 01011101 010011010 110001001 11010111 11110111 11010101 11010101 11011101 11011101 01011100 110011001 01110101 11011001 01010101 100111001 11010101 011100101 11010101 110101001 11110110 010101001 11010011 11010101 11011111 11001101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010101 11111001 011001001 11110101 11010111 11110101 010101101 11010111 11011001 11010101 11110111 11110101 10110001 11010101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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 are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, o are repeated.
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- summary of The Legend Of St. Mark;
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