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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