This is an analysis of the poem The Dew Drops Mist that begins with:
Whatever it is that you've been told...
As the dew drops mist, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABCABDE FDbCcX XeghX IBiBahcIB FDbCB GBGcB ABCABDE XGBGcB FDbCBXFDbCB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,5,9,5,5,7,6,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001101 10111 110101 1010000010 011101 110111 111101 1100101101 1111100011101 1 1110101 10111 10101 111111111 0010101011 11110101101 1101001 1111010 010100111110 0100100111 0101001100110 0100100111 1 110010111 1101001111 010100111110 0100100111 1100101101 1111100011101 1 1110101 0100100111 100101110101 100100111 010100111101 0 000100111 110001101 10111 110101 1010000010 011101 110111 111101 1 100101110101 100100111 010100111101 0 000100111 1100101101 1111100011101 1 1110101011 0100100111 1100101101 1111100011101 1 1110101011 0100100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word whatever at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word mist at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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