This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The Northeast Wind that begins with:

Welcome, wild Northeaster!
Shame it is to see ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcdcbefefabadghgXidijahaXjXjDkkkDjajXdfdXdXdllblXdXdXmgmdamahmXm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100 10001 1010010 10101 101100 100101 1001011 01101 1011010 100101 101110 11101 1001010 10101 1001010 11101 101011 10101 100010 100101 101011 10101 111011 10101 101110 10111 1001011 10101 101100 11101 111110 10111 111010 10111 111011 10101 111010 10101 111011 111001 111011 10011 111110 100101 101010 10101 101010 10111 111110 10111 101110 11101 101100 10111 1011100 10101 101100 10111 1110101 10101 111110 10011 1000010 11111 111011 10101 101110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1758
  • Average number of words per stanza: 291
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o'er, tired, fill are repeated.

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