Winter by Walter De La Mare

Title

Just considering the title the poem may be about winter.

Layout

Looking to the layout you can understand the text is a poem because it is written in verse and not in prose. It is arrenged into three stanzas of five lines each.

Structure

The structure shows the poem is arrenged into three stanzas of five lines each and they are separeted by blank spaces.

Denotative analysis

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.

Connotative analysis

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