This is an analysis of the poem Song of the Sand Storm that begins with:
I am the pitiless Sand Storm,
The whelp of a tameless breed- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabba Xcddc Xedde efggfXegeeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 01001001 1101011001 11001011001 10110111 110011010 1001101 11111001001 11001111011 0110101 11010110 0101101 1100100111 10010011001 1100111 010010010 11011011 1100100101 0111010101 0101111 010010110 10101101 1010101101 010110111 10110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; my, i, and are repeated.
The author used the same words i, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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