This is an analysis of the poem 90 North that begins with:
At home, in my flannel gown, like a bear to its floe,
I clambered to bed; up the globe's impossible sides...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc defe ghhcX ieaX bbbb fggX digX Xfgd Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101101001 1100110101001 111100110111 111111110101 1001011010110 0111111001 111111011100 011011001011011 10011001110 000101111 0111101111 1011 111111 1111110001 01001110101 0111001111 10011111010 1001000011 1001100111 1101110101 11010011111 111110110 110100101010 1111110100 1111111001000 11011011101 111010101 1110010010 111111010 11001000010110 0101100101010 0100010110010 111010001 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, at, i, in, that, where, darkness, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, where are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).
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- summary of 90 North;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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