This is an analysis of the poem Winter-Store that begins with:

Subtly conscious, all awake,
Let us clear our eyes, and break... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcddddeefgfXdd ghiijjk llkmmccbbgg mbmbcXmmccaacc ddiikkcckkllmmccggeekmkm ddccnnccXmccggaaccll kkcciigkkhnccnllccccccccclclmm cbooffcgcg cXacacnncckkpplicXdd eebbffclclllccccgmgm kkmccmcccXnnlleedgdh ngnglklkppllnbnbccccqcqcnnmmmm ngngffmdmXdmmd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,7,11,14,24,20,30,10,20,20,20,30,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 1111111 1010100 1010100 1010101 1110111 11010111 1010101 1111101 11110111 1010101 10101001 01111001 1101000 10100101 1010101 11111101 0010100 1000110010 00100010 01010101 100001001 0011101 11110101 1010111 1010101 01010101 1011101 1011101 0010101 11000101 100011 11000101 0010101 1010111 1110111 1010101 1110101 1111101 10101000 1010101 1011101 11101010 10111010 1010101 1010101 01010111 10001001 10011111 0010101 111001110 11111010 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110101 0010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 11011101 10000101 1010101 1000101 11101001 1010111 1011101 10010101 1110101 1001101 1000101 0011101 01011111 1011101 1110101 1000101 0010111 1010101 100001001 1010101 11111101 1011101 1110110 1010101 1011101 1010101 1011111 1111101 1010111 10100101 10010111 1110111 11111001 1011101 1010101 00100101 10101010 1001010010 1010101 1011101 10100101 0010100 1011111 1010101 1010101 1100101 1010101 0010101 1010111 1010111 10010101 1010001 11010110 0110100 10111101 1010001 110111010 1000101 10001010 1010101 0010101 10010101 1110110 001101 1010101 1010111 1110101 1010101 11010011 1000101 1010001 10010101 11111010 10101100 10100101 110011010 11010101 00101010 10111010 10101110 1110101 1010100 10101101 11100101 10101001 001011 1010111 100010010 10101110 1011000 1110101 1010101 1110101 10001001 1000101 11110111 0011101 0011100 1010101 1010101 1010101 1000111 11110101 1011101 100011 10100101 0010100 11111101 1111101 010010001 0010111 1001111 11010111 1011111 11101101 1010111 1000101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1010101 10111010 10001101 1010101 1010101 1111101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1000101 1010101 1111100 1010101 1010101 1011111 1010111 00100111 1011111 1110101 1010101 0010101 1111111 1111101 1111111 1010101 11001101 1010111 0110100 11010101 10010101 1110101 0010111 10010101 10001010 1100101 10101110 1111111 0110001 1111101 10111001 1111111 100011101 1111101 1010101 00110101 11111111 01011001 01010001 01110101 1010101 11010101 101001100 0110101 1010101 1000101 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 236
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, those, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words one, and, those, a, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Winter-Store;
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