This is an analysis of the poem The Weather Wight that begins with:
The way was long, the hill was steep,
My footing scarcely I could keep.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dX ee cX dd ff gg hX dX dd ii dd jj kk jj lX ee kk mX jj kk hh hh cc cc jX jj ll cX dd kk ll XX kk cc cc cX cX Xd mm nn XX dd jjXkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110111 11010111 01010101 11010101 01000101 11010101 11010011 110101010 100010001 01011001 10010011 01000111 10100111 101110001 11110111 11111101 11110101 11110001 11110001 010111100 11110101 110111100 11010101 01000111 10010101 11111101 01011101 11100001 01011111 11100101 11011101 11100011 11001001 01010101 10110111 11010101 10010011 11010101 11010011 110101101 110101011 11111101 01011101 11010001 11011101 01010111 11011101 11111111 11011111 01011101 11010101 01000101 11000101 01001101 11110101 1111001010 11110011 01001101 11110010 11001111 11010101 10010111 11110101 10010101 11100111 11010111 11110111 01110101 110111111 11000100 111000101 010110001 11001111 01010101 11000111 11110001 11111111 11010001 11010001 01110001 11110100 01011101 11011111 11010101 11111101 01010101 1101011 11010101 11111111 11001111 10110101 11111111 11110101 01111101
- Amount of stanzas: 47
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 68
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, he are repeated.
The author used the same words the, a, 'no, 'this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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