This is an analysis of the poem January that begins with:
Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110100101 1010010010 11110 110 1010111 1101100 0111011 0101 101 10110100 001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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- summary of January;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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