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

Stay, season of calm love and soulful snows!
There is a subtle sweetness in the sun, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1100111101 1001010001 0101011101 0111000111 1101011101 0101010110 0101010101 0101010111 1111011111 11111101001 1111011111 1111110011 1111011101 0111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.

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  • summary of To Winter;
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  • history of its creation;
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