This is an analysis of California Winter by Karl Shapiro.
It is winter in California, and outside
Is like the interior of a florist shop:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcac daaeXe dffXde dccada geeggd eaacec dhhidi
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Metre: 001001010111 010010000101 01110101 0110010111 1101010101 11000011101 0101100111 00100000101 11001000100 10010001101 11001000101 0101010111 1101011101 10110011001 1010100101 1111111000 1101010111 0101001101 00100010001 0101011101 1101010101 0111110001 1101011101 1111010111 1100011101 0111010101 1111110111 00101000101 00101011101 00101011101 1011010101 1101110101 1111110101 10011110101 0100100101 11110100001 001001010011 10010100101 1001010101 10010100101 1001100111 1001110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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