This is an analysis of the poem Self-Criticism In February that begins with:

The bay is not blue but sombre yellow
With wrack from the battered valley, it is speckled with violent...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbbcdeadbXfXcfebXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111110 0100101000100100 11 11010110111 110101010110111 1101010001 001011101001101000 1001101100110 110010111010001001 0100111010110 111011011101110 11011011011 1101110111101010 01001010001 0100111111011011 10111110010 10110101001011 1101010110 011101000010111 1101101110 100101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1071
  • Average number of words per stanza: 193
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; with is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of Self-Criticism In February;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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