This is an analysis of the poem Ice that begins with:
One made to heat.
And not to do overnight....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabcdXee AeXfbgfd AadeXcgd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1101101 110010 00101010 01100101 10101101 111010 111000 1101 0010110 11101001001 010010001 0110 10111 010111010 1110111 1101 1101001001 1110101 0010000100 100100101 011001 10011101 001011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; to is repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Ice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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