This is an analysis of the poem An Answer that begins with:
This will be a night in deep snow
which has the power to muffle steps ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacd eedfeg gfefea XfXge hfgebi XfXhec jijjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,5,6,6,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 00001011 110100101 0111010 100110010 111011 1100101001 01111111 10100101111 11001101 110111 001001110 0110111 01001101 101010101 1011 101110 0110 1101111 00011010100 001000001010 010101110010 1010011 001110010111 01010101001001001 11010110 1011111 1010111 1101101101 100100100100 01010010 110010010010 010111 01010101 11011011 101000101 1010110 10110010 011101010001 1010101 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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.
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- summary of An Answer;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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