This is an analysis of the poem The West Wind that begins with:
The wind that blows from the west
Taps at my window, sighing;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbcbAbdeXe XbXbdfAf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111001 1111010 1110101 1111010 1011000 1101010 1011101 1001010 1010101 1110110 0111001 0111010 1010101 00101010 1111111 0111110 0011101 00101010 111101 0110110 1111001 1110010 0111001 1011110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
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