This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of The Old Year that begins with:
Full knee-deep lies the winter snow,
And the winter winds are wearily sighing:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabcddC eceecaffa gcggcCaac hXhhijkkj alaalcaacXjjjjjikki
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,19,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 10101110010 11011111 1110111 10111010 111111 11011100 11011100 111111 1111111 10110101 11110101 1110110111 101101001 111111 1111001 11111101 111111 110010001 010011111 11011101 11011101 110101 111111 10111101 11010101 110111 1110111 110101110 01110101 01111111 110101 1001101 010101111 101111111 110101 11111001 11110101 01110011 01010111 110101 110111 11110111 10011111 110111 01010111 101101 11011101 10011110 110101 110101 101110111 101110111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, he, not, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us, you, friend are repeated).
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