This is an analysis of the poem Waking In Winter that begins with:
I can taste the tin of the sky —- the real tin thing.
Winter dawn is the color of metal,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXaX XXXabbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010111 1010010010 0110001111 11111001010000 101010111111 1010011011001 100110101111 100110110100101 101001010111 01010011001 11011011010100 111001001011010 111010011101 0101110101 00110110100101 10110111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 421
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, or are repeated.
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