This is an analysis of the poem Winter that begins with:
The long days came and went; the riotous bees
Tore the warm grapes in many a dusty vine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababacXab dedefddfe ghXhabbah aiaiiddii ajajfXXfj gkgXiXaiX babafaafa bcbXXiXfk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01111101001 10110100101 1111110111 110111 1101010101 1111110101 0101110100 100101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010101 110110101111 1100101 0111011111 01110100111 01010100101 110111 1001011001 1111010111 0101110101 0101110100 110101 011101101 0101010111 0101011001 111001 1101011111 1111010101 0111010101 101100111 0110001 0101010111 1101010101 1001010111 010101 1111010011 11011100101 0101110111 010101100 0100111 0101010111 1111101001 1101111000 010110 0101110001 11011010011 10111100100 0111010111 110100 1011010101 110101100 11011011101 110101 10010101100 1101010101 1001011101 11001010101 010101 1100110101 111100011 1101010100 0100111 0101010101 1101110111 0011010101 1111010101 0100100 101110101100 1001110111 01010001110 111001 0101001010100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, in are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Winter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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