This is an analysis of the poem The Wind Is Howling Through The Winter Night that begins with:

THE wind is howling through the winter night,
Like to a pack of angry wolves that cry....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aaaa efef Xbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010101 1001010111 1101110101 1101000101 0111111101 1111110111 1101010111 0101010001 1011011111 1101110100 1100011101 1001110101 1100110101 1101010101 1011011101 1111010111 0101000100 1101110101 0101010111 1101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; thy is repeated.

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