This is an analysis of the poem Winter Promises that begins with:
Tomatoes rosy as perfect baby's buttocks,
eggplants glossy as waxed fenders, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdXecXc cXeXdbabed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101011010 11101110 101010100 10111011 101101011 11110100111 010110101 01101111 110111001 110100011 1110110010 011001001 11111 010011 011011001 10111010 1100110010 01011010 11010101 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Winter Promises;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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