This is an analysis of the poem Wind Song that begins with:
LONG ago I learned how to sleep,
In an old apple orchard where the wind swept by counting its money and throwing it away,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcbcX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 01110101011110010110001 001110101111101101011 001001101010100101111 110110111101010111110110 111011011111111110101 10111101000101110011101011 10110100111011 1111 111001 10000111 10010 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 756
- Average number of words per stanza: 150
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; wind, in, where, i, and, to, how, who are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of Wind Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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