This is an analysis of the poem Winter In Summer that begins with:

All in a bleak December
My heart had summer-time;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXcaccdXdcdeeafXfghghXacaccbab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010 111101 1101010 111101 01110100 110011 1111010 111111 1001010 110101 1101100 110111 1111010 110101 1101010 010100 1111010 110111 1101111 11101 1111110 111101 1111110 101101 1110010 110101 11110010 110101 1111110 111101 1110010 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

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  • summary of Winter In Summer;
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