Poem Analysis of Where Does The Winter Go? by Ethel Turner for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Where Does The Winter Go? that begins with:

There goes the Winter, sulkily slinking
Somewhere behind the trees on the hill....

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Rhyme scheme: XaXabbcddcefefgghiihhjhjjjekkXhkhkkkhhhh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101010010 110101101 11010010110 010101001 11101 00111 111011001011 11101 11111 11100101011 011001001010 110100101 11111001110 1101110111 01101 10101 11111011110 11101 01101 111011010 1111001110 110101101 11011010110 10111011 1111 00111 01101101010 101011 01111 10111110101100 1101011110 11100100101 10100111010 1100101111 11111 11101 1111111110 11101 110001 1101001110
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1386
Average number of words per stanza: 266
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, his, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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Where Does The Winter Go? by Ethel Turner: poem analysis

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