This is an analysis of the poem Especially When The October Wind that begins with:
Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXabccb dbbdXccb deedbXXb Abbabffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100100101 0101010011 11010111110 1101110101 1011100101 1001010101 1101110111 1001011101 1100100111 1001010101 0101010101 0011010001 111110010010 1001010001 0100101111 11111001010 0101010101 11010101010 11010110010 1101010001 1111100101 0101111111 1001010101 1111100101 0100100101 1111100101 0101101101 0101010001 1111100101 01011100010 01011001010 10111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, some, you, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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