This is an analysis of the poem Song. Cold, Cold Is The Blast When December Is Howling that begins with:
Cold, cold is the blast when December is howling,
Cold are the damps on a dying man's brow,--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccb deXeXffeXgfghhX igigaaaX jbjbdddb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,15,8,8,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110011010010 1101101011 11011011110 11001101111 110010010111 110010011111 111011110111 11011011101 111111010 110101001001 1010111010010 11010110101 010110010100 111001001101 111011001001 1011011010011 11011001100 101001001 110010110001 111001001101 111111010110 111111010010 111011110 111000101100010 110001001001 110000111110010 11001001001 111011010010 1010011011010 111010011110 110111110111 11111001 101001001101 01011011101 11001101001 111111011010 111011010010 110010010010 001001001001 011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; cold, thee, her, of, i, call, she, it, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words cold, more, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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