This is an analysis of the poem Over The Wintry Threshold that begins with:
Over the wintry threshold
Who comes with joy today, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cada dXeX faea dgggXdfff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 110101 1111010 0101001 1101110 110111 1101010 110101 1101010 010101 0100110 010001 0111010 010101 1101010 110101 1011010 110111 1101010 110001 1111010 110101 1111010 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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