This is an analysis of the poem A Chill that begins with:
What can lambkins do
All the keen night through?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa aaXa bbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101 10111 10111010 0101 11101 00101 1011101 11101 000111 11100 1011101 111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Chill;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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