This is an analysis of the poem Gray Fog that begins with:
A FOG drifts in, the heavy laden
Cold white ghost of the sea—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXbabbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001010 111001 1110111 0110101 1101101010 001111 1011011010 1001011 1111111011 1010100111 10100111110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 404
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Gray Fog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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