"Winter" – Walter de la Mare

Title

The title makes me think about the winter season when the trees are leafless or snow whitens houses and grass. It also makes me think about cold weather.

Layout

The poem consists in fifteen lines. The first letter of the words at the beginning of each sentence is always written in capital letters.

Structure

The poem is arranged in three stanzas of five lines each. Its rhyme scheme is AABCB.

The poem talks about the winter landscape. In the first stanza the poet talks about the cold air and the leafless trees. Afterwards, he speaks about the sunset and how the sun goes down leaving his last ebbing light on fields covered in snow. In the end, the writer explains that part of the day when the moon appears overlooking the sea.

My previous answer compared to the predictions I made before reading the poem match.

It is actually easy to visualise the scenes depicted by the poet because they are very common in everyday's life.

Figures of speech

1. metaphor

When the poem says “beauty spread unearthly white” it refers to snow.

2. enjambment

4-5 “The robin with its burning breast / Alone sings now. II 7-8 “Day's journey done, / Sheds its last ebbing light II 9-10 “On fields in leagues of beauty spread / Unearthly white. II 13-14-15 “and soon / Over that sea of frozen foam / Floats the white moon.”