This is an analysis of the poem A Frosty Night that begins with:
Mother: Alice, dear, what ails you,
Dazed and white and shaken? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdad a cec ebXb ffff Xgcg XaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,1,3,4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101111 111110 101111 0011110 101011101 111010 1011111 111110 10111111 1011111 0111110 11101 10101110 101001 1011100 11101 111011 11001 1101011 11111 1101010 10111 1101110 00111 1101011 111011 11011111 1010111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
The author used the same word your at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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