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

Over the still world, a bird calls
waking solitary among black boughs. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bbc dXb ea X eeXX dbf XefXbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,3,2,1,4,3,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011011 1010100111 11000111101 11111010 0010110 1001 0001111011 101010 111011110 00110 11011000 1010 0111101 10010001011 11011101 111000101 11001 10101101 101110 010100 011110101 0101001 1110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 76
  • Average number of words per stanza: 14
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, not are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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  • summary of End of Winter;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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