This is an analysis of the poem Year's End that begins with:

Now winter downs the dying of the year,
And night is all a settlement of snow;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbacc deedff gccXXX ggggcc gffgXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010001 1101010001 0011010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101110101 0111110111 1101110001 1011010001 10101010001 1111101100 1101000101 1111010101 0100110101 1000111110 1100010001 11001011110 0101111011 1101010101 1101000111 0101011001 0101010101 0101011111 1101011111 1100010101 1001000101 1111010001 1100010101 01111100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, in, and, time are repeated.

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