This is an analysis of the poem Poem With Refrains that begins with:
The opening scene. The yellow, coal-fed fog
Uncurling over the tainted city river,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaaabX cdefXgfhX hg cigj hjX cdhXa jdajhbidchX ahjhajhbkbkbblheeX XfbgjgXXcX bkccljhgXhhhXh XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,9,2,4,3,5,11,18,10,14,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001010111 100100101010 01110101010 1001101001010 010100101010 100011111001 01110 10101 110010010100 01110011101 00110101111 11011101011 11010101010 10101111100101 10011100101 11111101010 1111110001 100101011110 11011011110 110110101011 010110101110 1111110101 1110111101 10011001011 00110110110 1000000011101 1101010111 110100100111 10100001111101 110001101010 11010010101 010001000010 11011111010 1111011001 110101100110 1110101101010 11010011101 11010111011110 010110100101 10001010101 11011101100100 11010111010 111111111110 11010111001 011101010111 111101111010 0101000101 10100111001011 10110010011010 110101100101 0110100001010 1101110101 100111011010 1110111011001 11010111101 0101101100101 10111010011 111111111 11110111110 1101000010001 110101111011 011010101011 100010100111001 01110110101 10110101011011 1011011111010 1001111011100 111001011001 001111001111000 1110101001001 101011111001 0100101101001 01001010101 01011011101 110111101101 0101110101 110111100101 0110111101010 1101001111 111001101001 1100100100101 10110111010 01010010101 01111101010 01010111010 01010111110 011111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 87
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she, her, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, i, and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word she at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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