This is an analysis of the poem Retreating Wind that begins with:
When I made you, I loved you.
Now I pity you....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa Xb aXabc defdg dgfc dfeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11101 1111110 10110011 111100101 111110 111100111 1111 1101 1111001 1000110 11101101 1101011 011010010 11011 1011100010 010101 111110011 111011 10111010 1011101100 010011 00101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, which are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of Retreating Wind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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