This is an analysis of the poem The Wind At Night that begins with:
O SUDDEN blast, that through this silence black
Sweeps past my windows, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcX dede fgbg ghgh bebX iiii fjfjkfkf lflf fbfb meme cXcf hbhb nene
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 11110 10110001001 11111 1111011111 10110 1100010101 11100 1111010101 01010 1001011001 01110 1011011101 10011 1101001101 11010 1101110111 11010 110111111 11010 1101001101 10010 01110001111 11010 1100110111 11011 10110010101 11011 1111011101 11110 11110010111 11110 1111110101 10110 1011011111 11110 1011110101 10110 111011011101 10010 11001011101 01110 1011010111 10110 1111110101 1000100 1111001101 10010 1111111101 11100 0101010101 011010 111001011 110110 1101111100 11110 1011101101 11110 11111100011 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 145
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, more are repeated.
The author used the same words why, that at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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