This is an analysis of the poem The Winter Lakes that begins with:
Out in a world of death far to the northward lying,
Under the sun and the moon, under the dusk and the day;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aeae cfcf cgcg ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011001010 10011011001101 1001001101001110 11111101101 10010011001010 100101100101 11001011011110110 010011110101011 1111111001110 100101101011001 1001111111110 100101100101 1111101010010 1010011001011 010101101110110 101011100111 1110011011110 1011001111001 10101111010 100111100101 10101111110 10110111011001 10010110101010 11110111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, under, never, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words under, never are repeated.
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