This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Song that begins with:
Now December darkens
Over Autumn dead.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaccc debbed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010 10101 0101110 1011001 01110101 1110101 101 101010 0110100 1111101 1110101 00110001 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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 A Winter Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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