This is an analysis of the poem O You, Far Colder, Whiter that begins with:
O you, far colder, whiter
Than she who makes less fair...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabXXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 111111 010101 01010101 11011111 1110101 111101001 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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