This is an analysis of the poem When It's Very, Very Cold that begins with:
Are you thinking of the children,
And the helpless, and the old, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X ab accca Xa X X c c ca Xa ca d d dA Xa ba e eXeA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,5,2,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,2,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100010 1010101 10101110 1010111 10101110 101010110 111010010 10110101 11100010 1010101 01010101 1111010 01010010 0101010 1101110 10110101 11100011 111111 11101010 0010111 1101010 1100110 0101010 10110101 11000100 1101101 11010100 000101 1111010 1111010 1111010 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 50
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, them, let are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, let are repeated.
The author used the same words and, the, let at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words cold, them at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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