This is an analysis of the poem The Red Mist that begins with:
SHE thinks aloud as she sits alone,
And the magpies call in the evening grey —...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaaaabaXXcdcXefeXghghicicfefejhjhaiaikkkkkkkkififhihilXlgmdmdkXkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110111101 1011100101 1100000101 111100101 1011001001 11001001001 101011011001 1101110111 110011101 011110111 111110110 110011110 1111001011 110111101 1101111101 1010111111 1110100111 110111101 111110111 11111011001 111101111 111011111 01010111111 011101011 110110111 110101101 10100111101 1100110101 0100111111 011101101 1101100101 111111111 111110101 111111111 1101101001 1100111101 1100101111 1011100111 1010100111 010100101 110010110010 1100111001 1111011010 110101101 110100101 011101101 10101100101 1011100111 11100110111 10111011101 11101110101 011110101 1010100111 0010100101 111110101 010100101 111101111 011100111 11101001001 110010111 111101111 111100111 111111101 1111001101 111100101 110011101 1111111111 11110100110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2914
- Average number of words per stanza: 588
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, your, you, my, in, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Red Mist;
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