This is an analysis of Winter Rain by Madison Julius Cawein.

Wild clouds roll up, slag-dark and slaty gray,
And in the oaks the sere wind sobs and sighs,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba Xcdbcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111111101 1001011111 1101010111 1001011101 0111111101 1111110001 1001011111 10001100001 1001011101 0111110101 1100111101 1011010011 0101111101 1001010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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