This is an analysis of Winter Poem by Laurie Lee.
Tonight the wind gnaws with teeth of glass
The jackdaw shivers in caged branches of iron…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcXaXXbccXabddcXcXdXb
- Stanza lengths: 22,
- Metre: 010110101 010100110010 01110 101000101110 10100010010001 110101 01111111010 0110101101 10101001 101110111100101 1011011111001 10111001 011011 1011010101001 10100101001101 10111001010 10110101110101 11111100110 001011011010 011000110001 10011010 011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, our
Anaphora
the, and, in
