This is an analysis of the poem North Wind that begins with:
LOUD wind, strong wind, sweeping o'er the mountains,
Fresh wind, free wind, blowing from the sea, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XeXe abXb abaXXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010010 111110001 111101101010 10101 1111101010 1101011101 10011011010 11111 1111101110 11111011001 100111101100 11101 11111010010 11110111111 111101001010 10101 1111101110 101100111101 1011011111010 01100 1111110010 111110101 1111010111110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; wind, thou are repeated.
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