This is an analysis of the poem The Spry Arms Of The Wind that begins with:

The spry Arms of the Wind
If I could crawl between... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcbc XXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001 011101 11110100 010101 111101 111011 01110101 110101 010101 100111 11010100 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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