This is an analysis of the poem [month Of] December that begins with:
Hoar Time about the house betakes him slow,
Seeking an entry for his weariness. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcXcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010110011 1011010100 1011010001 1011010111 11110011101 10010111001 1100010101 0100101111 110101011 1001011101 100010101001 101100111000 01110110001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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 and is repeated.
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