This is an analysis of the poem How One Winter Came In The Lake Region that begins with:

1 For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still,
2 Clothed in the shadow of a smoky haze;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaab cdccd cecce dXddX fgffgXbgbbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010111 11001100101 10101011100 11101011111 1011101 10101011111 11101110001 10101010101 10101010111 1110101 11001010101 11101010111 11101010101 1110111111 10111001 10101110101 10110110111 11101111111 111010100101 1010100 11111011111 11001000101 11101011111 11101010111 11100111 11111010011 10101000101 11101011101 11111110111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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