This is an analysis of the poem Faith And Despondency that begins with:
The winter wind is loud and wild,
Come close to me, my darling child;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbb ccddeeff XbggccaahhX XbbiiXb jjkkaa ddaabbb gbgbllbb kkdhXhbbbX aiaimdmX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,11,7,6,7,8,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 11011101 011111001 110101001 110101001 111101 01010101 11111101 01011101 11110101 10010101 01011101 01010111 111001000 11010101 100110101 11011101 11011101 11010111 11010101 11111101 11110101 01001001 11110110 10010100 11010101 11010101 1101110010 101101010 11110010 011100001 10110101 01011101 11110101 111100101 10111101 11110001 11101101 010111111 11010001 11011101 11101111 11011111 11110111 10110101 11011100 11010111 01010101 01010011 111001001 11011101 01100101 11111011 11110101 1110011 100011111 110111010 11011101 11011111 11110111 010010101 0100010 111101101 1101110 11010101 1101010 11011111 111101 011100101 01110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, to, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, their, and are repeated.
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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