This is an analysis of the poem Winter that begins with:
SEE! Winter comes, to rule the varied Year, Sullen, and sad; with all his rising Train,
Vapours, and Clouds, and Storms: Be these my Theme,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXcdefghcebieafgjafgggfakklaabbXgcbkgeelXgaeXggmaaaenXfgkoaccggapbheccgggelcffgfejeggacebglgglXXgjffqpcpggjoXhlgagmapheageXaahkgdjgehgefbmXehklgoofekhbkgcoaXlhagghklcdfhgecgcggpabkgnhgciXfkcbgbmcXfedackaceebdklhkibejbgkfXoklkgaeaghcgkeicoegccjgkgegfhcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 404,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101011011010101 1011110111 1101010101 11001010101 1101010101 1110110101 1111010111 1101000101 1111011101 1011011111 1011101101 1101010101 0011011101 11010010001 11010011111 1110000101 1101011101 0111011101 11010101101 0101011111 1101000101 01011101001 01001000101 1101010101 1111000101 1101110101 11010101001 11000010101 01110000101 111101001010 1111010101 01010011001 1111011101 01010001001 1101010101 0111010111 0111000101 1111000101 1101010101 11110100101 1101011101 1101010101 1100011101 11010011101 1101010101 1101011101 110010111010 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 0011010101 11010010101 1100010001 1111000111 1100010111 0101011101 1001010101 110100100010 1101010101 1011010101 1001110001 1111010101 0111010101 11001010101 0101010001 11010101010 1101010001 1101000101 11010101001 01110010101 1101010101 11010101001 11110110001 0111110101 0101010101 1101111101 1011010101 0101100101 1101010101 11010101001 0011110101 11001101001 1101111101 1001011101 0101011101 1101001101 01011101001 1101011011 10110001001 1101010101 11001100101 1011010101 10011000111 0011011001 1101010101 1101011001 11010101010 01010101001 0101000101 11001010111 1100011101 01100010101 11011111010 1011110101 0100111101 0101010101 1111111101 1100010001 1111010101 0100010101 1111010110 1001011101 11010010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 10110000111 01110100010 1001011111 0111100101 1101010101 0100100101 1101011101 11010001001 10010100101 0101010111 1011110101 1101000111001 0101010111 1111110111 0111010101 1101010101 1001010101 0011010101 10011011101 11001010101 1101010101 0111010101 11111000101 11001011011 0111111101 1011010101 11010001001 1101100111 0101011101 1101010101 1111110101 01001111101 1111110101 1110010101 0101010100 01100010001 1011011111 10010111001 0101010101 1001011101 1100011101 1001010101 1011010101 1101010101 1011000101 10011111001 0110011101 0101001101 1101010101 10001010101 11110101001 0101011101 11010111001 1101110111 11001010101 0101110101 1001000111 1101111101 0111010101 110101 1101010111 1001010101 11001010101 0101010101 1101011101 11001000101 1101010101 0101010101 11111101001 1111111101 1101010001 1001010111 1111010110 0111010101 11011100101 1001010101 11110001001 1111010101 1101000101 1101011101 11010000111 1101000110 1111100101 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 1111110101 1001010101 11001110101 0101010101 1101010101 0111011101 1001111001 1111001111 1101010011 01001011111 010101111 1001010101 1001011101 1101010101 01001010101 1011110101 1011001001 101101001001 11110011101 1111111001 000100111010 0101010101 1001010101 1101011111 011100101001 11010011101 01010101010 1101010101 01101110101 1100010101 1111010001 1100011101 11010011111 1110010101 1111010101 101101101001 0101011101 1101011101 1100110101 1001011111 0110100101 11011001001 00101010101 1101001101 01111101001 10010011001 01001011101 0100010101 1101010101 1101010001 0011010101 0101110101 0101010101 11010110101 0101011111 1111000101 1001011101 1110101111 0111110101 1110011101 0111011101 0101110101 01110011101 11010010101 1001110100 1100110101 0100110101 1011000101 10110110001 100010100001 0110001111 1101010101 10000110101 1101110101 0101001101 1100010101 1101010001 1001010111 111010001 01111101010 11110010101 1111011101 0101100101 0101000111 1001010101 1101010101 1001110101 0101110111 10111101001 0100010101 1101111101 1111010111 10110100101 11010101101 1100010101 1011010101 1001110101 1101110101 11111011 0101110101 0001010001 1101110101 1001011101 11010110111 1101100101 01010010101 1101010101 11010010101 11110100101 1011100101 01001100101 010100111 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 11001010111 110010111001 0101011001 1101010101 1100010001 01010010101 1101010101 11000010101 10001000101 1001011101 1101010101 0101011101 1110010111 0101000101 1101111001 11010101001 0101011101 1101010001 1101010101 1101010101 0101001101 11100011101 1100110101 1001010101 1001010100 0101110101 1101010101 11001011001 1011110111 0101000101 1001010100 1010010101 1001011101 1001010001 0101011101 1101010001 1100110101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1111010101 11100100101 110100101 1101010101 01010100111 0111011110 11001111101 1101010001 1101010111 1110011111 1101011001 0100110101 11011101001 1101011101 1010111111 111101101 0101110101 0101001111 11010010101 010110100101 1001011101 0110011001 1101001101 1111011101 0101011101 1011010111 0101010100 100101111 11000101110 1101011101 1101010101 1100010011 0111110001 1011010101 0101011100 0100110011 0101111011 1100111011 0100011101 11010110001 10001111010 1101111101 0111010101 1111111101 1101000101 1100010101 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 18266
- Average number of words per stanza: 3013
- Amount of lines: 404
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, thy, in, to, me, who, of, those, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, now, and, where, the, how, thy, those, in are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Winter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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