This is an analysis of the poem Stanzas Composed During A Thunderstorm that begins with:
Chill and mirk is the nightly blast,
Where Pindus' mountains rise,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab acXc dede bebe fgfg hihi bfbf jeje kdkd clcl Xmnm dldl cfXf bcbc bcbc nini lXlc lXll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 110101 11011101 010001 11111101 110111 11111111 110101 01011111 110101 11000111 110101 11010101 110101 11110011 110101 010101111 010101 01010001 111111 11010101 010100 11110111 110001 11111111 0101001 11010101 111001 111111010 110101 111111010 011101 110011101 1011101 11000111 110111 11011101 111101 11011111 111101 11010110 111111 11110101 011101 11111111 110101 11011111 110101 11110101 010101 101100100 111101 11010111 001101 110101001 1100111 11011001 011111 01010101 010101 110010101 0100011 01110101 010101 01111101 110100 11111111 110111 11110111 110110 110110111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 72
- 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; our, on, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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