This is an analysis of the poem [month Of] February that begins with:

The winter moon has such a quiet car
That all the winter nights are dumb with rest. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddc eaeaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0101110101 1101011101 11010010101 11110000101 0101110111 11110101001 11010100101 0101011111 0101010111 0101011001 1111110011 1110111101 0101011111 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • 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 the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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