This is an analysis of the poem The Storm that begins with:
O GRIP the earth, ye forest trees,
Grip well the earth to-night,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab abab cdcd dada Xeae afaf ghgh aaaa ijij
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 110101 01110101 010101 11110101 110001 01011111 010111 01110111 110011 01010101 011101 01010101 110011 11110111 010101 01010111 111111 010110111 010001 10010111 101111 00010001 110111 11010101 110111 11010111 010001 10110101 110101 11010101 111101 11110101 111111 01010101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, their 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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- summary of The Storm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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