This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The Winter Days that begins with:
I.
The sky has turned its heart away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abab bcbc bbbb dbdb X dede dfdf gbgb hihi X dgdg ffXf bhXh dada X dgdg gigi gjgjXgcgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01110101 010101 01010101 110001 01011111 110111 01010111 010101 11011001 010001 01010001 111101 11011111 001001 11010001 111101 1 01110101 110101 01110101 010101 10010011 111001 01011101 111111 11011101 110101 11011101 110101 110100111 010111 11111111 010101 1 11010101 110101 01011111 111111 01110101 110001 11010111 010001 01010111 110101 01010110 111101 11010111 110101 110000101 111101 1 01010101 010111 11010111 111001 11011101 111101 11010111 110101 11011101 010101 01110111 010101 111101001 110101 11000101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, heed, a are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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