This is an analysis of the poem Midwinter East And West that begins with:
No flower in all the land-
No leaf upon the tree, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcaacddebaffeee cddcbbggccaaaeegggg eehhhggcCbbgXgggXggiihhjcckkbbjjjacaXcC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,19,39,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 110101 101111 1110101 1011111 10101 0111110 10110010 11110101 100101 0100111 1100101 111111 0100111 0101 010101001 11110101 10101010 10110110 0111101 1101010011 1010101 1100111 00110101 00101 10101 101101 010101 1011101 110101 1100101 011101 111101 00101 101011 1100111 10110111 10101101 00111110001 1010001 1010001 110101 1110101 1011111 110101 00101 1010101 111101 00101101 110101 010001 1011111 110101 010001 0111010011 0101 11110011101 111011 011001 1100111 1100101 111111 110011 111101 0010011 110111 1010101 1010011 100111 100101 0101001 11101010001 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, of, in, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and, the, with, an, o, my, up are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines snow, sand, rain are repeated).
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