This is an analysis of the poem Flowers In Winter that begins with:
How strange to greet, this frosty morn,
In graceful counterfeit of flower, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abac cdcd eXed fgfg fhfh icic icic Xeje jaja kkkk bibi jkjk aeae cdXd lXlc cdcdXajaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11010101 010101010 11000111 0111010 11010101 010001011 01110101 110101 01010101 00110111 010100001 010101 11110101 11010101 11010101 010011 01000100 11010101 11111101 010111 01100101 01011111 01110101 110101 010010101 11110101 01011101 110101 011111100 1011111 11110101 011111 01010101 01010111 010100101 010101 10110111 110000101 10010111 110001 110111110 100011111 101101010 110101 11000111 01110111 11010101 110111 01010111 01110111 11011101 0101001 01010101 11010111 11110110 010101 11111101 01100101 11011101 110101 100010101 01010111 110100101 010111 111011101 11011101 11010101 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, this, our, and are repeated.
The author used the same words how, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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