This is an analysis of Winter by William Shakespeare.

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaABCC bXbXaABCC
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,
  • Metre: 11001101 11010101 11110001 11110101 11011101 11010101 11 11110101 11011101 11010111 11010101 11110001 110011111 11011001 11010101 11 11110101 11011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

and, tu

Anaphora

and, tu