My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem My Winter Rose that begins with:

Why did you come when the trees were bare?
Why did you come with the wintry air?... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh bbee iiee ggXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110101 101100101 1011100101 1010110111 1011100101 10101110101 1101100101 110010101 11111111 11111111 1011100111 10100110111 1011110111 1110101101 10110100111 110100101 111110111 010100101 010101001 0100100101 111110111 10110011101 110101111 10101100101 110111111 1111101101 0011111101 1110101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, when, in, vain, and, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, when, could, in, and are repeated.

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  • summary of My Winter Rose;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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