This is an analysis of Brueghel's Winter by Walter de la Mare.

Jagg'd mountain peaks and skies ice-green
Wall in the wild, cold scene below.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbdbXbXb XcacXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,6,
  • Metre: 11011111 10011101 1011101 010100101 11111101 10101101 010101001 10010111 10101101 01010101 110100110 110010001 110010101 100101 11111101 110100101 111101001 01011111 11110101 11011100
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

nor

Anaphora

nor