This is an analysis of the poem The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. January that begins with:

COVER SHOOTING
The week at Whinwood next to Christmas week.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abaXbaba cdcdcXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1010 0111010101 1111110111 00110010101 1111110101 10101110111 11010101001 01110101101 1111011101 1011000111 110101111011 0101111101 11001010101 11010111001 1111111100 1111110101 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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