This is an analysis of Wearisome by Ina D. Coolbrith.

The wind it bloweth a-cold, a-cold,
And the dreary Winter rain is falling;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fgfgcc
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 010100101 1010101010 110010011 0111010 011101111 1011100 1011100111 011100111 1010110111 1010101 1011100101 1011100 111110101 1100101101 111110111 11111000 1111101111 1110100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

and, the