This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Song that begins with:
Came the dread Archer up yonder lawn —
Night is the time for the old to die —... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBab cBcb dBdb ebeb fBfb gBgb hBhb iBib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101101101 100110101 1111101101 1011110111 101100111 100110111 110101111 110100101 101101111 100110101 110101111 110101101 100100101 100110101 1101101111 100110111 110111101 100110111 101110101 111111101 11001101001 100110101 101100111 0101101111 1100110101 100110111 0101100101 1010111001 111101111 100110111 111110111 1011101111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Jean Ingelow
- Analysis of A Story Of Doom: Book Viii.
- Analysis of A Story Of Doom: Book Ix.
- Analysis of A Story Of Doom: Book V.
