This is an analysis of the poem Earlier Poems : Woods In Winter that begins with:
When winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the hawthorn blows the gale,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbX dede cfcf gbgb ffff hehe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11011101 01011101 11000101 100110101 10110101 0010101001 110111000 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010001 101101101 110101001 10010101 11010111 01110011 11111101 11011101 10111001 11110001 11010111 110010101 01010111 11110111 11010011 110001001 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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 words and, i are repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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