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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