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

To the memory of W. B. Yeats
I...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXcdadedde Xdadfgeefee Xdhdihaeiae XdXdfgjefje beceicdeide badaXdXejfe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,11,11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00100010011 1 0111101 1011100 0101001 110000 110110 1101010 1100101 10101 00110001 1011101 1 011111 101101 001001 010001 110011 1100101 1011001 010001 011101 0011101 1 0101001 1101101 111011 1100110 1001001 1100101 0100101 11101010 110111 011111 1 1011101 110100 111001 010111 110101 0101010 1100101 110101 0100110 1011101 1 10101001 0010101 111101 1001010 010111 0101001 110111 1001110 1100101 011111 1 110101 111111 10011 01100 010101 110110 0011111 101010 011001011 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Winter Mask;
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