This is an analysis of the poem It Was Winter that begins with:
Winter came as it does in this valley.
After eight dry months rain fell ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdccce fgda dccechXg Xeeee giXcj gckXhllXijeiXk jXfigbkiXlhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,8,5,5,14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010010 1011111 101011011101 00101110 11101010 111101111 1011010101 110111010010 101010101 00101111100110 10100101001 11011010100101 11010100010100 110011011 10110111100110 01011100110 1010111000100101 111110101010 1110001101101101 11000010111 10011101010 1111011011 110010010000101 100001001010 1111111101 1110100100 111110101001 1110101011 11101101010001101 101001101 101110111 111101010 11101001 11110001001010 111100100 0001010110 10101101110111 0 1110010101010 010100011100101 010010101001 010100101001011 101101100101 0011100111 1111011010 11111000101 1010101 1100101111001 110100110111101 011100110 101111011110 110010111110 0011101111 101001001101101 1010110111 11101101101 0100001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, we, the are repeated.
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- summary of It Was Winter;
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