This is an analysis of the poem The Plaint Of A Rejected Wife that begins with:
The east wind gently blows,
With cloudy skies and rain....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded fgegfggg higiejfj gkekcldl jaaa idbd fhghimem
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101 010111 11111101 110001 101101 111101 11010101 111011 110101 100101 10110111 110101 110101 110101 01111101 110101 110101 010101 11010111 111101 110111 111101 10101110 110101 010101 110111 11010101 111101 110001 111111 11111001 110111 110011 001011 11011111 110101 110011 111101 11111101 010101 011101 11100001 11010111 110111 110111 010101 01011111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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