This is an analysis of the poem A Night Of Storm that begins with:

Oh city, whom grey stormy hands have sown,
With restless drift, scarce broken now of any,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaa Xbaccb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1101110111 01011101010 10011101110 1101011011 1101011111 01110111010 0100111001110 11110111001 10111111110 111111100 10010111110 1101111111 11110111001 11111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 338
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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