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

The pale day died in the rain tonight,
And its hurrying ghost, the wind, goes by:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab caca adad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011100101 1010010111 010101101 110110111 0101100101 1100101001 011100101 1001001101 101100101 11101011 11101001101 1010110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is 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;
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  • history of its creation;
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