This is an analysis of the poem Song—the Winter Of Life that begins with:
BUT lately seen in gladsome green,
The woods rejoic'd the day,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXXbX XdXdcaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 010101 1101001010 010101 111111 110110 11010101 011101 11111101 110101 11011111 101101 111101 111101 11011101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Song—the Winter Of Life;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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