This is an analysis of the poem Winter In Durnover Field that begins with:
Scene.--A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and
frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about thereon, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX X bXbabbaabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 101101111001011 1001010111100101 1100100101101110 11 10 101011111 110110010 1011010101 100111 111 1010011101 110101011 1001 11111 110110010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 224
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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