This is an analysis of A Winter Landscape by Mathilde Blind.

All night, all day, in dizzy, downward flight,
Fell the wild-whirling, vague, chaotic snow,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cccccc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1011010101 11001100101 1111110101 01011001001 11110111001 1100010111 1111011101 1111011101 0111010001 1101010111 1101010111 1101000101 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14