This is an analysis of the poem Winter Poem that begins with:
Tonight the wind gnaws with teeth of glass
The jackdaw shivers in caged branches of iron...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXaXXbccXabddcXcXdXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010110101 010100110010 01110 101000101110 10100010010001 110101 01111111010 0110101101 10101001 101110111100101 1011011111001 10111001 011011 1011010101001 10100101001101 10111001010 10110101110101 11111100110 001011011010 011000110001 10011010 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 967
- Average number of words per stanza: 197
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, and, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, in are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Winter Poem;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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