This is an analysis of the poem The Months that begins with:
January
Contorted by wind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXc defg gfbe a hgXf fgic jgkl m ibbb bblb ffna d Xgab gefo bfol p daeh qdol cfeq g Xjdg fXfp hdee p fnff lXeh fiob e bmk gfaa qeqf l hfql gqfe nipi l afbd qfeg gbbf l heeX eiXa kcfg l lefe mbhlXkbfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,3,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010 01011 110001111 0101 00111 1011010 1110110 101 0101010 1111001 10110 011 0111 1010 1010 1010 10100 0101 0101010 111 0101 111 111 01 010101 1001010 1 10111 010101 010100101 1001 0101 1001001 1101010 10001 11010010 00100101 1101 01110 10 00011 0010 010 111 11 01100 10110 01 11 11010 011 10010 1 110101 10110 1101 11 100100 1010 110011 11010010 11101 01010 010100100 001 1 011 1011 1101 1001 101001 1101110 11010 11111 101 101010 010101 1001 01 010101 111 10 0101 010 100100 100110 1 10101 011 1001 1 10 100111 1100011 001 10010 0011 01110 10 10 11011 010 111010 010 11001 10010 11 0110 0101 11 011 0011 001010 01 100 110 010 1100 01 11 0111 11010 011 01 0010 1010 1101 00101 01 010 10100 111 101 01010 1101 110 011 010100 010101 11111 00100 0010 010 011010 101 110 11 111 011 11 001010 1001 101 101 010
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 53
- Average number of words per stanza: 10
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 3
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words may, and, color, absolving are repeated.
The author used the same word may at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase may connects the lines.
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