WINTER

Winter is a poem by Walter de la Mare

The title

The poem might be about seasons and in particular about winter. It may be about the weather in winter and all the feelings you feel during this part of the year.

The layout

There are three stanzas of 5 lines each.

The first time

There are many everyday words, but there are also more difficult words.

Impressions

While reading the poem I felt a sense of calm and and tranquility

Rhyme scheme

In the first stanza the rhyme scheme is AABCA instead in the others it is AABCB.

Figures of speech

There are some enjambements: on between the last two lines of the first stanza, another one on  the last three lines of the second one and the last one on the three final lines of the last stanza.

In general

The poem is about a landscape, without specifying the place.

In the first stanza the poem tells about the cloudy sky and the cold wind that blows and froze everything, while the snow falls there is a robin which sings alone.

In the second stanza, the subject of the lines is the light that illuminates the short days and makes fascinating light effects with the snow.

In the last stanza, the poem is about the winter nights, where the fires are turned on to protect from the cold, one after the other light up the sky, over the landscape, which looks like a sea made of ice and the white moon floats over it, as a silent spectator.