This is an analysis of the poem Winter's Ravages, An Appeal To The Rich On Behalf Of The Poor that begins with:
Stern Winter on foul mischief bent
Left his cold region of the North;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gfgf ahah fifi abab ffff fjfj hchc gggg kXkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 10110001 10011101 11011111 110010001 01101111 11110101 01011101 110011101 10111101 11011101 10110101 01111101 11100101 11010100 11010111 01010111 01011101 11010101 11011101 10110111 010011101 01010101 01000101 01110101 11000101 11011111 100101101 10110101 11111101 11101101 10110011 11110111 01011101 11110111 01010101 110100101 11010101 110011111 11111101 01011101 011100001 11010101 11010111 11111101 01110101 01010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that are repeated.
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