This is an analysis of the poem The Glen Of Arrawatta that begins with:

A SKY of wind! And while these fitful gusts
Are beating round the windows in the cold,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXeefda gdhiha bdbjid fiXfiifd hagbddad bgkalfb Xambeadnjjneg Xhcnliimddk deaXikblndddafididX jXdaabbiodh bdihbjghhifpb hfdad ddXhhdbdnbdbd idkaXinif agjeXgdXdbj jdamihd bjdbfnX aaddng cbaidddpaihhidig gdXabjbcafjbgcibod
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,6,8,8,7,13,11,19,11,13,5,13,9,11,7,7,6,16,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101111101 1101010001 0101010111 01001000111 11111010101 0111010001 1101011111 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101111111 010101110101 1101010101 1101010001 0101110101 0101010001 1001110101 01001101010 1111111101 0111010101 1101010101 0100011101 1101011101 0101010101 0101100110 1101010111 0101110111 1101010101 1101011101 0101110101 1001000101 1111010101 0111011101 01011101011 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 11011100111 0101110101 0101110111 0111011101 0101010101 01110101001 0110010101 1101010101 01010101001 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1001110001 11001010101 1101011101 0110110101 01011100101 0101010101 1111011111 110010101 10 01010111001 1111000111 1100010101 0101000101 1001011101 0011010101 01001110101 0101001101 1101010101 11000110101 1101110101 11010101001 1101010101 111001111001 11010010011 1101110111 0111010101 0100010101 1101110111 1111001101 1111000101 0101010111 1101001101 0101010101 11011001001 01010101010 0101010101 11010101001 0101000101 1101010101 0101111001 1101000101 0101100101 01010100101 1100010101 01010111001 1101010101 0101010101 1101110111 11001000101 11010111001 0101010101 0111000101 0101110101 1001011101 1101100111 0101110111 1111011001 1101110101 0111100101 0111110111 1111110011 110111010111 1101010101 1101010101 01010110001 1101110100 01010001010 1101010111 1101010101 01010101001 0101010001 1100010101 1111110001 1101110111 11010001001 1101010101 1101011101 01010101001 1101010001 1111000101 1101110101 0101010111 0111110111 0101110101 1110110101 1001010101 01011111001 0101000101 1101011001 0101011101 0101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1111010001 0101010111 0101010100 11010101010 0101110101 1101010111 1111010101 1111111101 0101010101 01010101001 1101011101 1111110101 1111111101 0111000101 1101010101 010100001001 0101010101 1100110101 1101010101 0101010101 01110 11111 0101010101 11010011001 0111110101 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 1111000101 1111111101 1101000101 11010101010 1111111101 11010101001 0111000101 1111111101 01010101001 1111110101 1101010101 11001010101 1111010101 11111101 11 1111010101 1001001001 0101010101 0101110111 11010010101 0111110101 1110010101 1101010101 0111010101 1101011001 0101000101 11010101011 01010010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010011 0101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, with, how, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, of, they, and are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word away at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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