This is an analysis of the poem Lament Of The Winds that begins with:
We in sorrow coldly witting,
In the bleak world sitting, sitting,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdXbd Xcdccd eefggf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 00111010 1010101 10101010 10111010 1011111 11101110 00111010 00101010 10101110 10111010 00110010 10111110 100101010 1010111 01101010 01111010 1111111 11101111 01111111 1110101 10111010 11111010 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; her, and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, not are repeated).
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