This is an analysis of the poem The Storm that begins with:
They say it is the wind in midnight skies
Loud shrieking past the window, that doth make...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefefagaghghgigig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1100010111 1101010111 11001000101 1011010101 1111000111 1101010111 0111111111 0111010011 1100010101 1111000101 1101010111 0101000101 1111000101 11111111001 1111010011 1101110101 1110010111 0101010001 1111010101 01001010101 1101010111 0101010111 1101010101 1111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1061
- Average number of words per stanza: 203
- 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; their, to are repeated.
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