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

WINTER forests mutely standing
Naked on your bed of snow,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXX cXcdee cfcfgg ababff hihiee jdjdhh afafff akakll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010010 1011101 11101010 0010111 1110111 1010100 10011110 1011101 10111010 1010101 1010111 1110111 11101110 1000101 11111010 1110111 0010111 1010101 10011010 1111101 10101010 1011111 1110101 1010011 11101110 0010101 10100110 1010001 1011111 0110011 10101010 1010111 11111110 111101 1010101 1011111 10101010 1010101 10101010 1000101 0011111 1000101 10101010 0010111 11101110 0011101 1010101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.

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