This is an analysis of the poem A Winter's Tale that begins with:
It is a winter's tale
That the snow blind twilight ferries over the lakes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcba dadad ddXdd efefe cgXgc dHdhd cgcXe cdXdi jhchj hhhhh ddddd jacaj dcjce ddddd khXhk ldldl dbdhc mHdhm ififi gbgbg dddhd dmXmd Xdcdc enene dddddXfacdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 000101 101111101001 1101001001001 1010101101 01101010101 101101 101010011011 10010110101 10011100111 001010110111 110111 10101110101 1011100101100 010101100111 11010011001 011101 001001011011 1011111101 11011010011 11010110101 101011 010100101101 01110110010 10011100101 1101011011 111111 101101100111 101101100101 0010100101 10101010101 111011 1110101110011 10101101111 1011001010111 1011110101001 000101 1101111101 00111110011 0101111011 1111101101 110011 10010010010101 011101010111 10101111011 1111111010101 010101 110010011111 0011010010001 0101010110101 1001011011101 010111 11011011101 01110000101 100100010011 110100110101 100101 000101000100 1001011101001 111010010101 01001010001001 010010 101110101011 101011011100 10010110011111 1110100011110 010111 0010111100111 1111101001 01111110101 0111101011101 110101 10010110110011 1010100100110 10111111011 1000101011111 011001 110100100001 10101011011001 10111001011001 0111010111101 101101 010101101101 110101110111 110100001101 101101001001 001011 101101100111 10101001011 11111101100101 101111000101 001001 11111100111 1100101001111 1001101101001 1110100101011 111101 110111011 1111110001001 110111110011 10111110111 010101 010101010101 010110110101 010010010101 00101101001101 101010 10111100101 1011101101010 1111010011 101011100110 010100 1011101011101 01010011100010 111010011011 1100111001010 100101 01001111100110 1101110111001 10001111000110 110110001010111 101110 001001111111 10110111110110 1101000101 01010101010 11111 10001101001 1101010001 01010011001 1110110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 26
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 130
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, he, a are repeated.
The author used the same words he, in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Winter's Tale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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