This is an analysis of The Fog by Guy Wetmore Carryl.
The fog slunk down from Labrador, stealthy, sure, and slow,
Southwardly shifting, far inshore, so never a man might know…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabbccaA ddeeffaA ffggeeaA hhaaiiaA ffjjddaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 0111010110111 100101111100111 101010111100101 10101001011110101 100100101100111 10111001011010111 10100111111011101 0111010110111 101011111111101 10111101010100101 1111101010100101 1101001011011101 1011111011110111 1011101011010101 11011111111101 10111010110111 10111011011111001 0111001011010101 111111011011111 1111101010100101 1010111111100101 101111110100101 111011111100011 10111010110111 11001101110011101 1111101111011101 11101110110110101 01001101010101101 0110110110110101 01001011011100111 0111101110001101 10111010110111 1100111110111101 1010101011010101 101001101010010101 1011001111011111 11111010101110101 1101101010010101 10101011100111101 10111010110111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
and, on, of, ye, to
Anaphora
where, and, the, when
