This is an analysis of the poem Give Up All Your Sentiments that begins with:

Give up all your sentiments,
About lamenting Winter....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdc XXefa bXebXcfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100 0101010 1011 110 1011 01 1101001 1101010 1101 101111 011100110 1001110101 1 1010101010 0111 010101 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Give Up All Your Sentiments;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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