This is an analysis of the poem The Windmill that begins with:
High on its curving hillside
The windmill stands and sees...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdebXcfbfgaXadhdhXgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 011111 0101110 11010001 0101110 010001 11010010 110100 0101010 110111 0101010 010101 0111110 010101 1101010 111101 1101110 110111 1101010 110101 1111010 110111 1111111 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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- summary of The Windmill;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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