This is an analysis of the poem January, 1795 that begins with:

Pavement slipp'ry, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbaa ccdd Xaee ffaa ggaa aXhh aaXX cccc cciiXccgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10101010 10101010 10001010 10101110 100101010 10101010 10101010 11111010 10011010 11101010 11011010 11100100 10101010 100100110 10101010 10111010 100101010 10011010 10101010 11101010 10101010 100101010 10100010 101001110 10101010 10111010 10101010 10100010 10101010 10111100 10101100 10101010 10101010 1011011 1011101 10101010 10101110 11101010 10101010 10111110 11110010 10101010 10111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in is repeated.

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  • summary of January, 1795;
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