This is an analysis of the poem Winter's Approach that begins with:
DE sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow,
Ol' Brer Rabbit be a-layin' low,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccaddeccebbeeea
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110111 111000101 1110101010 01011111 11111101 11 011101001 111101111 1 110110101 1011111011 1 01011111 001110110 1 11101011111 1111010101 11
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 536
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; de, he, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, she are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases he, she connect the lines.
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