This is an analysis of the poem January that begins with:

COLD January comes in Winter's car,
Thick hung with icicles-its heavy wheels...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXbccbcc
  • 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: 1101010101 1101000101 10001011111 0011011001 1111111101 0011010101 01110011101 1111110100 010111011110 10110001001 1111010101 11110101010 11110110101 110010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 106
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; with, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • summary of January;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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