This is an analysis of the poem The Sky Watcher that begins with:
Black rolls the phantom chimney-smoke
Beneath the wintry moon; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXabcc deddeff gXgghii jfXjfii kjkkXkk clcclkk jjjXjbb jXjjhmm kbXkbkk kjkkjbbXfmfflgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010101 1101101110 011100101 101101 11001101 010010100 11011101 111101 010111001 11010111 010111 01010101 01010100 10010101 011100 10011101 110011010 111100 10111111 00110101 11010111 110101 11011001 01111101 010100 01111111 10010101 11010111 110111 010111001 10000101 0101010 010101101 11010101 110111001 101111 11110011 01011111 1111011 10010101 01010011 11110101 111101 11110101 110111010 111011 11101101 11110111 01001101 110101 11010101 11010001 010100 010011010 111111110 11010110 110101 10010101 010101001 011101 110100101 11000100 11010111 010101 01110011 111010101 011101 11110101 11010111 11010101 1111010 110101111 11010101 110101 01100101 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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