This is an analysis of the poem Wind that begins with:
He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbCCDD eeffCCDD aXeXCCDD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100111 110100101 1101011011 111110101 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101 111011101 110100111 010011110010 0101111010 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101 011111101 010110100 111101001 010100110 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, wind are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wind is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word best at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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