This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Night that begins with:
When biting Boreas, fell and doure,
Sharp shivers thro' the leafless bow'r; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXa aaXbXb bbbcXc dddXdX eeefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11010101 11010111 1101 11010101 1101 11010101 11110111 111101100 1101 110101110 1111 100111010 11110110 110111010 1101 11011101 0101 11011101 100101101 01010111 1111 111111001 1111 11110101 10110111 01111111 1101 11000101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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