This is an analysis of the poem Winter Complaint that begins with:
Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaXXXXbcXcbdcaefXfXgfgfded aacabXeeXfXfehhhXXXXXeheiXec XXdXediX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,28,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 1110011 1010010 1111111 1101111 010101 111110 010010 11110 11110 111101000 100010 1010001 11110 1110100 1011 1111 1110111 011010100 10001 111010 111101 1111010 10111 10110100 01110 1110111 11010 111101 1110011 11101010 111001 1011010 111110 1110010 111011 111110 00101 111110 111101 1110110 10101 11110 00101 11010 000101 10110 10111 110011 111110 1110101 111010 101001 0010010 11111010 101010 111010 111110 111010 111010 11111 111110 1111 001110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; i, you, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, you are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cold is repeated).
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