This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Walk that begins with:

WE never had believed, I wis,
At primrose time when west winds stole ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abba caac deed fgdf hiih jhhj dggd kggkXgddg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11010111 11111111 11010101 01110110 101101001 11011101 11111011 10110011 10111101 11010101 10011111 11110101 11011101 01011011 111000101 01010011 11010101 11010101 11010111 01010111 11111011 01011101 01010111 11111111 11011011 010100111 101100101 10010111 01110101 1011101010 100101010 11010101 1100011 11111101 10111111 011100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Winter Walk;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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