This is an analysis of the poem An Awful Tempest Mashed The Air that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1 110101010 0101110 010000101 1101101 010101010 1100010 11110 110110 111101 0101011000 010101 110001010 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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