This is an analysis of the poem The Old Cloak that begins with:
THIS winter's weather it waxeth cold,
And frost it freezeth on every hill, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd XeeeadaD fbfbedeD XghXeded fefeedXD XehefdfD gegXeded ceceXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010100101 1101011001 11010111 111101101 1111111 111011 11111101 11111011 111111111 11110101 00111101 1101101 111101111 111110000 01010111 111011011 1110001001 110111001 11110101111 11011011 11010101 11010101 001110111 11111011 1110101001 110111001 11001101 111011101 11010101 1110111111 001011111 111011011 1001110001 1010101001 11110111 11010111 1110101011 101011110 11111010 11111011 111111111 1011111 1110101 11110100 1110111011 11011101 10111101 111011011 111010101 11011101 11010111 100110101 11011101 11100101 011110101 11111011 11111111 11011011 10011101 11111001 011101001001 101111001 11011011 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i'll, she, it, now are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, she are repeated.
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- summary of The Old Cloak;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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