A Winter Daybreak Above Vence by James Arlington Wright: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Daybreak Above Vence that begins with:

The night's drifts
Pile up below me and behind my back,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaXXXbdebadddee cafgaehdiX Xheggddef eiedeggX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,10,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011 1101110111 110110111 10101101001 0010011 100111010110 0111 1111111101 111 1111101010 1001100101 0010110001 0111 0101011011 10110010101 11111 1100010001 110101 01011101101 01110010011 110101011010 1101001011 001011010 01111010 00110 01010011010 101011000110 11111 010010000110101 010010010001 1010010110 110110010 10100111011 0101001101 10010110110 011101 1011110110 11111111 1001100101011 100101111000 010111111001 1101010010 1101111110110 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 412
  • Average number of words per stanza: 77
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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