This is an analysis of Earlier Poems : Woods In Winter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

When winter winds are piercing chill,
And through the hawthorn blows the gale,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbX dede cfcf gbgb ffff hehe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11011101 11011101 01011101 11000101 100110101 10110101 0010101001 110111000 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010001 101101101 110101001 10010101 11010111 01110011 11111101 11011101 10111001 11110001 11010111 110010101 01010111 11110111 11010011 110001001 11010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

and, i