This is an analysis of A Wintry Picture by Alfred Austin.

Now where the bare sky spans the landscape bare,
Up long brown fallows creeps the slow brown team,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXccaca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101110111 1111110111 10001111111 1111010101 10001000101 0101010101 1101011111 1101000101 1100010111 01110001010 01110001001 0101010101 10010101010 0101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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