This is an analysis of the poem Winter Hue's Recalled that begins with:
Life is not all for effort: there are hours,
When fancy breaks from the exacting will,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXbeacfaghXaiXijaXdkk fakiiebjaXlheg dcalfbamnadeiackjajabcXlldedeejeajfgkmXfaajlfakaX llnlalajjooX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,14,49,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111101110 1101000100 1101110101 0100010111 1101110111 01001011110 1101111100 01011101011 010000111110 01011111010 1111011101 10110001001 00101010100 1001010101 0101010101 11010100010 1111011111 1011011101 1101111101 0101010111 11010001001 11010101100 1101111101 1111011110 10110111010 1111011001 11110010011 10010100010 1111011011 1011010111 1011011101 1110011101 01000010101 0101111101 1101110110 01000111001 10010011101 1101110100 01000101010 1111110101 0101101111 0101010111 001010101 10110101001 010100100110 1111100101 010010110001 1011010101 01110010111 1101010111 01110101010 1101010101 10010111001 10011100101 11010101110 11011011111 0101000111 1111000101 1101011101 110101010100 1011011101 110100101000 0110011111 011101010 0011010101 11000010101 1101110001 1101110101 1101010101 1111010111 01011101010 0111000101 111111100001 0101010001 11001101110 11010101010 10010010010100 0111000111 011111101 0100010111 0111100101 10110101001 0101010101 01000101011 11010011001 1011001110010 10010001110 010100 1111 1001001111 1101110101 1101111101 1001100101 1101010101 10010010101 11010001001 01011001001 100001111101 1001101101 01011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1082
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, the are repeated.
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