This is an analysis of the poem The Winds Out Of The West Land Blow that begins with:

The winds out of the west land blow,
My friends have breathed them there; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd dede efef bgbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01100111 111101 10010111 110101 01110111 1011001 11110001 111101 11010111 110111 01011101 110111 11111111 111101 11010101 111001 01111101 110101 11010111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; their is repeated.

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