This is an analysis of the poem Twice A Week The Winter Thorough that begins with:
Twice a week the winter thorough
Here stood I to keep the goal: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1110101 11111010 10111 10100010 1110111 10101110 10001 11011010 1011101 10101010 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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