This is an analysis of the poem March Wind that begins with:

High above the trees, swinging in across the hills,
There’s a wide cloud, ominous and slow;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbd eeae be fgehibX cb aXbd dgfgg g iejgekb jab hll laflgl XXkXab Xada
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,2,7,2,4,5,1,7,3,3,6,6,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011000101 1001110011 1011101010101010 101001110101 1011101010001 111010101 10111110001010 10 10111111101 1010101101101 10101111101 1111101010101 010 111011101101 1111011010101 11 11101011111 11111010111001 10 10101111101 111111100011001 10101010100 1010111100101011 10101011111 101011010101 0110101001 1110010101011 10 10111110101 10101110101010 1 10111010111 11111010101000 10 10101110001 101110111111101 1001010111 10101011101010 11 11101110101 1111010111101 10101110101 1010101000101010 10101010101 00111011110101 10101110101 101111101011 1110 10100010001 111110110101100 10101010101 1100001010111 011 1110010001 0011011011101 101001101001 1110111010111110 11111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, of, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of March Wind;
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