This is an analysis of the poem Winter Night that begins with:
It snowed and snowed ,the whole world over,
Snow swept the world from end to end....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBA ccad efBA bXfg XXfe dXBA cdXX XgBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101110 11010101 01011010 0101 11010101 01110101 10010111 01010101 01010101 01010101 01011010 0101 010111 0101010 11011011 01100 11011001 110 0101011111 0101 111001 01011000 01011010 0101 01011001 101100010 10010111 010011 0110101 01010111100 01011010 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; crossed, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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