This is an analysis of the poem The Winter Harvest that begins with:
Between the blackened curbs lie stacked the harvest of the skies,
Long lines of frozen, grimy cocks befouled by city feet;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eaeaXecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010111010001 110101011001101 11010101010101 11011101010101 01010111011101 01010101110101 11110101110101 11110101010101 11110101111101 01011100010101 11011101010111 11010111010101 110001000110001 11010101010101 10010101010101 10010101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, only are repeated.
The author used the same word no at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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