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

All night, all day, in dizzy, downward flight,
Fell the wild-whirling, vague, chaotic snow, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cccccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 11001100101 1111110101 01011001001 11110111001 1100010111 1111011101 1111011101 0111010001 1101010111 1101010111 1101000101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of A Winter Landscape;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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