This is an analysis of the poem The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees that begins with:

THE wind is without there and howls in the trees,
And the rain-flurries drum on the glass:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ceceffff gdgdhchc ieiecccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001111001 101101101 011010101111 1110010111 11101101001 111011001 01111101010 111101011 01011111001 001101111 01001111011 111000101 01001011001 111101101 01111101011 111111001 11101001011 111011011 01011001011 011001101 11111011011 111100111 01111010101 111001001 01101101111 001111011 111101001011 111101001 01101101001 101011011 01111111001 111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 331
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

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