This is an analysis of the poem The Hut By The Black Swamp that begins with:
Now comes the fierce north-easter, bound
About with clouds and racks of rain, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababb acacc deXee cfcff ghghh bdbdd ihiXh jhjhX hdhdd aaaaa kekee lmlmm beXeeXehehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11011101 01011101 11111101 01011111 0101 111001001 01100011 11010101 110011111 1111 11011101 01011111 01110111 11110111 0101 11110101 11011111 11010001 1110111 0101 01110101 01110101 11010101 11010100 1101 11011101 01010101 11011100 11110101 11001 11011101 111100100 110100101 110100101 1101 11010111 11011111 11010101 01111101 1101 01010101 11010111 01010101 11010101 0111 110101001 11111111 11010101 010010101 0101 100010111 110100101 01010101 01110101 0101 11110101 11010101 01010101 110011111 1111 11011101 11010101 11010111 11110001 1101 11011101 01010101 11010100 0101101101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 70
- 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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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