This is an analysis of the poem Between The Winter And Spring that begins with:
Between the Winter and the Spring
One came to me at dead of night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXb cca de edecX X affa Xgga e hhehi Xie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,2,5,1,4,4,1,5,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010101001 11011101 11111101 11011000 11111101 10111111 011100111 11110100 01111111 01110101 101101001 01110110 11111101 11110100 01001011 1111011111 11111101 01111101 11111111 11110100 11111111 0101111 011000101 110101001 11111101 11111111 11111111 11111101 11111101 10010110 01111100 010100111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase his connects the lines.
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