This is an analysis of the poem Winter that begins with:
The pungent smells of a California winter,
Grayness and rosiness, an almost transparent full moon. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXa Xb cdX efX egg hbdh dbcie Xfbg eb Xif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,3,3,4,5,4,2,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101010 10110011101011 1110010111110 010001101111 1101010010 110100111101110 111101101101001 1111010111 1111101001 0010010111011 10101010001 0110101 0100101001 110100010 1110111111 0100110101010 1110100110 101010011 1111010100101 1011010111110 10101001010110100 11110011010100100 01 1111100110 1011001010001 1010110100010010 1011001001101 1100110111 10110101111101 11111010111 0101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; i, of are repeated.
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