This is an analysis of the poem Blow, Northern Wind that begins with:

Blow, northerne wynd,
Send thou me my suetyng!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXaaaX bXbXXXcX XXXXcXXX XddXXeeX fffXggXX XXXXeXXX hhhaXiia
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101 111110 1101 111 1001011 11010011 101001 11101 010101 0101101 101111 10001 0101011 0111101 0101111 111101 0101111 01010101 1111101 110110 101101 101001 1011011 111011 01011101 011111 110111 11101 1011101 101001110 1010111 100001 01010100 11001101 0101101 100001 1010001 10111 1010101 101110 101001 101111111 100110111 111010 1010010 10100100 1010010 1100100 101001 101001 1010010 1100100 11011111 11011111 11011101 11111 11010111 11011111 11011011 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; blou, e, with, of, heo, for, hir, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, heo, for are repeated.

    The author used the same word heo 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 e is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word e at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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