This is an analysis of the poem The Duties Of The Wind Are Few that begins with:
The duties of the Wind are few,
To cast the ships, at Sea,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXX ccbc baXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000111 010111 01010101 110100 01000111 010101 01110 101110101 01000111 100101 10011101 010101 01010001 110111 111111000 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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