This is an analysis of the poem Winter Solstice that begins with:
When you startle awake in the dark morning
heart pounding breathing fast...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXd eee fgXffaa XbXb fdcg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,7,4,4,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100110 110101 101011000 11111 10010 1101 110101101 10111001 101101 10100111 11010 101101011 1111011 101100 1101010110 1111 11111 11111100110 110011 01010010101 1101111111 110110011 101101 11100111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.
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- summary of Winter Solstice;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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