This is an analysis of the poem The Grey World that begins with:
Grey nights in the wind,
And the grey-faced dead....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bccb dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 10111 11011 111011 11001 11111 11111 11101 11001 101101 1111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; grey, in are repeated.
The author used the same word grey at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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