This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Ix Winter that begins with:

See how Soracte stands glistening with snowfall,
and the labouring woods bend under the weight:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd ebec eeeX cXab XXed afXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100010 10100111001 110101110 10001101001 10110011101 100100101001 100111011 110011011 10100111101 11010110101 111100101 1011001001 11101111011 11011011111 111110010 00100110101 11011111111 010101010001 101001101 11011101001 10101101001 11001001010 101101001 1001001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; don, t are repeated.

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  • summary of Bki:Ix Winter;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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