This is an analysis of To Winter by William Blake.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors:
The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXXac abcX dXdX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101110001 0101111111 11010101111 1111001101 11111100101 1100111001 011111111 11110101001 110100101111 00111100101 11010101001 10001110111 110101010100 101110111 0111011010 011000101110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

thine, thy