This is an analysis of the poem The Wind On The Hills that begins with:
Go not to the hills of Erin
When the night winds are about,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb bdcd aece XfXf gaga ghXh bdXd gdXdXabab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001010 1011101 1111110 1110101 10011010 1111101 11111010 1110101 1111010 111101 1101010 1011100 0110011 1010101 11101011 111101 1111010 1110111 1101010 011101 1001110 101111 11110101 0010101 11100010 001001 11111010 1111101 10101110 1010101 11101010 1110001 1111010 110111 10101010 1010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; you, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, for are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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