This is an analysis of the poem From Lightenings that begins with:
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Shifting brilliancies. Then winter light ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcb bde bff ghh a chX ijX Xhg egi X eXi jfb kfX XbX X Xjk ceg cfX dXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 101001101 0011110111 0101000101 10110010101 1101011100 1101011111 1100010101 1001001001 0101010101 1001110011 11110101111 1001101001 1 1101100101 1010010001 1111011101 01111000101 10100000100 01111111010 1101010111 0011011111 00110100100 00101110100 1001000110 011101010 1 10010111111 10100110011 101010101 1101110100 010111101 1100101010 101100111 1101011101 00011101100 1111000111 10110100101 11010011010 1 01011010100 01110101010 0101010001 0101010111 0101000101 11101110011 01010110101 1100010101 11111111011 0101101111 10011110111 10010011110
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same words and, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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