This is an analysis of the poem The Wind And The Moon that begins with:
Oh, list to the wind of the night, oh, hark,
How it shrieks as it goes on its hurrying quest!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcddceXXedd accaffgXbbge
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100100111 101101101001 01001001001 01001001001 11001111011 10101001001 1111111101 1100101111 1111101110 111011100 10100100100 101001010 100111001 11011001101 10101001101 011010101 1010100101 010010111 1101001001 0101111011 1010100111 0100101101 1101100101 1001111001 1010011101 101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 540
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; voice, its, of, they, and, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word forever is repeated.
The author used the same word oh at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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