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

Ice-chips plucked whole from the smoke,
the past week’s stars all frozen in flight,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a b X b X c X c X d X d e a e X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111001 011111001 110101011 100100101 11101010 110011111 110101011 11010101 0101001010 11010101 111110100 11101011 110111 01101111 0100111 101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 37
  • Average number of words per stanza: 7
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s is repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Winter Sky;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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