This is an analysis of the poem Lines For Winter that begins with:
Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbadeXfAcXXXgedafAgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 1011111001 11011 1010 0111101 1110 010101 1100101 0011001001 011011 110 1111010 101111 11110110010 11011100110 0101 100101110 11111 11110 1100101 110 01101001111 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 127
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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