This is an analysis of the poem Storm that begins with:
Out of the gray northwest, where many a day gone by
Ye tugged and howled in your tempestuous grot,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbccdcdeed afXfXef dfdfXgf bgbgbbg cacaeea hchcccc ibiXbXb aaaXbba ababggbXceceeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001111100111 11110111001 1101011101 11010100100 1001111101110 11111101010 111101 110111110111 1111000101 110011100111 0111010101 10010101010110 10110101010 010101 010011110101 1111111101 0111010100 1111110101 0111010101100 00111101110 010111 010101010101 1111010111 0101011101 11110100101 0111000101000 11011101010 110101 010101001101 1001110111 11010111001 11111111001 110110111101110 010010111010 010101 111111011111 11111100111 1101010011 1101011111 0111110101110 10011111110 001101 11110001001101 1101010101 0111111111 10110100111 1011111101010 01111100010 111101 101101101101 0111110111 1001010101 11110110110 1011110111010 010111001100 110101 1111110101001 1111110111 1111011101 0101010100 1011011111010 01101101010 110011 111111111111 0111010101 1101111111 1011110111 101110110101010 11110011010 111011 1111110010011 1011111101 1101011101 0111111111 0111011111110 01111101110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 77
- 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; of, and, with, in, our, we, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word across at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Storm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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