This is an analysis of the poem The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad that begins with:
The time of year has grown indifferent.
Mildew of summer and the deepening snow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba XXcc XaaX caac Xdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110100 11010101001 1101000111 1111001101 0101010100 11010001000 1011000111 0101000100 010000100 0101010101 1101010001 1111000100 0101011101 0101011101 1101000101 0101001101 1101011100 1011110101 1101010001 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; might, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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