This is an analysis of the poem The Distant Winter that begins with:
from an officer's diary during the last war
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X a bcba dddX X cece efef ghgh ijej X gaga dXdd aXak lili X kbkb amam kbkb gmgm mnXn a ekek dldl eoeo a glgl gggg Xgdg glgl dedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110010010011 1 01011111111 1001000100100 1101011001 1100010111 10110111010 1010111011010 11001101010 10101001010100 1 111100010100 01110110101 01010101010 0101010101 1101110100 0101011101 0111001101 1111110101 11111111 1111111111 0111010101 111101101 0001010001 1101010111 110100111 1101011101 1 011111111 1111001101 0110110101 01011001001 01011101010 00010101011 11100100010 1101100010 11111101001 11010110010 1001111101 0101110111 1111100101 1101010010 1101011101 00110100010 1 0101010101 01001010101 00010010101 1001010101 1101010101 11110010100 1111110111 1111111111 10001011101 1101011111 1011010001 1101010101 1011110111 0101110100 1111000101 1111000111 00010010001 0111111101 0001001110 1101010011 1 0011011111 1111111011 1011010101 1101000101 01010100110 1011011101 010011011010 1101010001 1101111111 1011100101 1100101111 0111011101 1 1111110101 0100010111 11011101001 10111100001 11110110001 1101011101 0111010101 10111011011 010110111000 1101011101 01111111110 1011010101 10010110011 1101100101 0110101111 0011010101 110010111110 10110111001 11010101010 100101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 99
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i, it, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or are repeated.
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