This is an analysis of the poem Winter that begins with:
Now that the earth has hid her lovely brood
Of green things in her breast safe out of sight, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110101 0110011101 1101110101 0101011101 1101110001 1101111111 1101000101 1111010101 0101011111 0101010111 0101100101 0101111101 1111010101 1100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, against are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word against is repeated.
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