Winter
a look at the season through an ancient poetic form
2 min readNov 5, 2019
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This poem was written in the old form used by early English poets. Far back in the days when this language was much different — what we now refer to as Old English — rhyme was not used and poetic lines were organized by rhythm and alliteration.
It was a powerful technique, well-suited to tales of adventure and description of the wider…