This is an analysis of the poem When Cold December that begins with:
WHEN cold December
Froze to grisamber ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbccXdddaaXXXacXaeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 10100 010110111 1101 110001 101011 11011 011000 100101 1010011 101101 01010 010100 111100 1100100 10100 0111001 110101 10100 10011 1101 001101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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.
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