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

Hateful, and most abhorred,
about us the season...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXecfff DXGhiXXhhiDXG gXhjkjbhfkgaagebdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101 011010 0101101 1011010 1110 11001 1101 0100101 100100101 011001 100110 11011100 11001010 110100010 100101 01100100 11001111 100100110 1100101 01010010 100110 11011100 11001010 1111010 111000 0111110 1011000 0100101 10101111 11001 01010 10000 01011 010010 010001 1101 0010010 0101 11001 111011 1001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.

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  • summary of If Winter Remain;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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