This is an analysis of the poem Winter Dawn that begins with:

AT five I wake, rise, rub on the smoking pane
A port to see—water breathing in the air, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaacXdceefgfXddeXbabahheXXeggggddiXai
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111110101 01011010001 110011100101 1101011101101 1110101001101 1101111101 110101100001 1001001101010 100101000110 110100101111 101101001101 011011011101 100111100101 111101011101 1111011111 1100100010100 1011111101 1100100101010 10110111001 10101010100 1101111001001 1101110111 0111000101 10110011101 01110110101 11110100101 11111100101 0100100101110 1001100111010 010111011 1011011001 01010100101111 10010100101101 101101011111 110010111010 100101010110 1001010101 11001111101 1101110111 1010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2006
  • Average number of words per stanza: 348
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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.

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  • summary of Winter Dawn;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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