This is an analysis of the poem In The Cold Winter Night that begins with:

In the cold winter night
The furnace of the sun too ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABCDE aadXdffXXXABCDE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001101 0100011 111011011 111010011 1001010111101 111111101100011 10101101 0101001 01101 11101101000101 110100010 11111110 1111 1101001 001101 0100011 111011011 111010011 1001010111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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