This is an analysis of the poem The Coming Of Winter that begins with:
Out of the Northland sombre weirds are calling;
A shadow falleth southward day by day;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111110 0111010111 110111010010 0111010111 00011110010 1001111001 111101111 1111110111 11010101010 0101011101 11010111110 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, slayer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word make is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase slayer connects the lines.
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