This is an analysis of the poem In The East that begins with:

Like the wild organs of the winter storm
Is the people gloomy rage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabbXX ccca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011000101 0010101 01010010 0111 01011001 011001010 00010111 01001110 101000101 011101 1110010 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; of is repeated.

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