This is an analysis of the poem Winter that begins with:
How large that thrush looks on the bare thorn-tree!
A swarm of such, three little months ago, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXccadeeddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110111 0101110101 1100011111 1101101100 0111110110 01111101011 11011010101 0101011111 0101000111 1011011111 1101010001 1111010101 1111100101 110100101100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 656
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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