This is an analysis of the poem A Calendar Of Sonnets: December that begins with:
The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes
Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbdcdb
- 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: 0101110101 0101010111 1101110001 0101010101 1101010111 1111110011 1101011111 0100110111 1101010101 1101010101 111010101 0101011111 110010011111 10011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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.
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