This is an analysis of the poem A Winter Piece that begins with:
The time has been that these wild solitudes,
Yet beautiful as wild, were trod by me... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcddefghicifjkffclkieeXkhjageglcmcnkkaiebXdniaenjgacak ceeeceXcocafcoekifnkcmlifceiaikeegiackoi ebiejlcbcficgeeifaiemgiedlfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,40,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01101111000 1100110111 10011110101 11110100101 10110011101 1101011111 1011010101 0101010101 0101010001 1100010100 1101111101 0111011101 0011011101 0111111101 0101010101 1111011111 0101001101 0111010101 1101011111 10011101011 0111110101 1100100011 0101011101 1011010101 1101010100 0111110111 1101000100 1111001101 10010011111 10010101001 0100010101 1101010101 1100011100 1011110101 1101111101 0101010111 11011101001 1111011101 01001110111 1101110101 1101011101 1001011011 1101011001 10110011001 1101010001 01110010101 1101111101 0101110111 0101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0110101101 1011000101 01010110001 11011010111 0101010011 1101110111 1001110101 1100010111 1101011101 1101110101 1011010101 00010010101 01001011011 1011010001 10110010101 11000110111 101100001010 01000100101 11011100111 1101010111 10010011101 0101111101 0101001101 1001011011 11011100111 0100111101 1111000011 1100110011 0101010101 1110010001 1101011101 11010101010 1001010111 0101010111 1111011101 1011101101 10010100101 0101010111 1101110101 1111011101 1011111101 0011010011 1001011101 1011010101 11100111011 1001010101 1111110111 0101110011 0011101101 1100010101 1101010001 1011010101 0101010111 10010101001 1101010001 0100010111 1011010101 1011010101 1111010111 1111010101 1101010101 1011011101 01011011101 011001100101 10010000101 0101010101 0101110101 110100100111 1011011101 11011010101 11110011011 1111101101 1010110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1849
- Average number of words per stanza: 334
- Amount of lines: 124
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, i, with, of, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines one is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase light connects the lines.
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- summary of A Winter Piece;
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