This is an analysis of the poem The South Wind Say So that begins with:
IF the oriole calls like last year
when the south wind sings in the oats,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011111 10111001 0011111011 10100110011 00101101110 110111110 1011101110 101110101 1011110 01111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; we is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines coming is repeated).
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