This is an analysis of the poem Denied that begins with:
The winds came out of the west one day,
And hurried the clouds before them; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXdX dbXbeaXX dfdfecec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 11001010 110111101 11001010 1111110011 1001111 110011111 1101110 01110111001 11101110 0100101101 10111010 11101111 1001101 1101111001 10100111 011110111 001001010 10111011001 11001110 111110101 11001111 101111111 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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