This is an analysis of the poem Wearisome that begins with:
The wind it bloweth a-cold, a-cold,
And the dreary Winter rain is falling; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fgfgcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 1010101010 110010011 0111010 011101111 1011100 1011100111 011100111 1010110111 1010101 1011100101 1011100 111110101 1100101101 111110111 11111000 1111101111 1110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 18
- 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 words and, the are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word wearisome at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Wearisome;
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