This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of Winter Weather that begins with:
It isn't the foe that we fear;
It isn't the bullets that whine;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcdXccc cbcbdbeebbb eaeadcddccc cbXbdcddbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00001111 00001011 00001001 001101001 00001011 01111001 100001 100001 001 1 1 00001111 11001001 00001011 01011101 00001001 11101001 001011 101001 001 1 1 00001111 11001001 11101001 01101111 00001111 111101001 001011 00101 001 1 1 10101101 0101101 010110011010 01011001 01001001 01101001 101011 101101 001 01 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, mud, we, cold are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, mud, rain, we, cold, with are repeated.
The author used the same word it 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 mud, rain, cold are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases mud, rain, cold connect the lines.
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