This is an analysis of the poem Winter Break that begins with:
All day between high-curded clouds the sun
Shone down like summer on the steaming planks.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaccaddeeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 1111010101 01110001001 10010011111 11100011110 0101110001 1011000101 0101110011 1101010111 11001110001 1011000101 11001010101 110011101000 1111111000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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- summary of Winter Break;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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