This is an analysis of the poem Songs Of The Winter Nights that begins with:
I.
Back shining from the pane, the fire...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dddd efef dfdf X gdgd fhfh aiai jdjd X dkdk ffff gfgf gXhX X fjfj agag hihi jljl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 110001010 111001 111101010 110101 01010111 010101 11011101 1100101 00110101 111111 01010011 110001 11010101 110111 11011101 110110 1 01111101 011101 11000101 111101 101001111 1100001 01010011 1011001 01010101 110111 11000101 100101 10110101 011101 11111111 110110 1 10111111 010101 11110101 111101 11011001 1010111 11011101 110001 10010111 100101 01110101 110001 101011101 1101001 11011101 010101 1 01011111 110101 01011101 110101 111101001 010101 01110101 111111 111011111 011101 11010101 110111 11111111 110101 11111111 110011
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- 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: 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 poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the 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.
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