This is an analysis of the poem A Year’s Windfalls that begins with:
On the wind of January
Down flits the snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcdc aefecgcg Xfhfcgcg eefechch ccccciji fkbkclcl geiemimi lljXfcgc djcjfini djljnngn djfjciiiXdfgflbjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 1101 10000101 111011 11010 1111 11001110 111011 10101010 1111 1010101 10101 101101 11010101 0010101 110000 0010101 01011 1010101 100111 01101101 111101 10101010 111111 001010 111101 1010101 00101 101111 110111 11111 1110111 101011 0111010 11111101 01001110 0101011 011111 010111 010101 0010101 10111 10011101 10111 111101 111101 1010101 11101 1010101 10101 010010111 1101101 1011101 11101 1010101 110101 0010101 11101 1001101 11110 10111001 10101 1100101 001001 0110010 010101 1011101 11001 1110001 11111 1110101 11101 0110010 10101 1100101 1101 1011010 111001 01110111 110111 0110010 01111 1011101 1011 1001101 1101001 1010101 00111 101010 011101 110101 0101 00111 10111 110101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, trees, across, rose, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words across, and, some, brings are repeated.
The author used the same words on, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Year’s Windfalls;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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