This is an analysis of the poem Winter: My Secret that begins with:
I tell my secret? No indeed, not I:
Perhaps some day, who knows?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcc dcdaceecaacbbbcc ffbbbaeeggae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010111 011111 1101011111 1111001 110101 1011011111 11010111 0110110101 110111 0101010101 011101 01011101 11010100111 1101110111 11010101 10100101 1011011111 1111111101 010101 001011100111 1111111100 0111110101 1101011111 100101 11000111110 1101110 11110101010 01110101 11011111 11010100011 0111111111 1011010111 01110111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, come are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, nor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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