This is an analysis of the poem A Song Of The Summer Wind that begins with:
Balmily, balmily, summer wind,
Sigh through the mountain-passes, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdb aebeXe afdfbffX agcbgag bfXfdf ahehih bjajXjbj abXbjbXagagfgig
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,8,7,6,6,8,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100101 1101010 1001001001 1001110 1001001011 101101010 11011101 110111 011101100 1100111 001011101 011101 101110111 11011110 1010100101 001001010 1011100101 11101110 101011100 0111000 11011101 0100111 110100101 010010101 111110 1111110101 1111101 11001001001 11001010 011100111 111011010 1011100101 10111010 111111101 01001010 111110101 101010010 10100110111 10101010 1001001001 10111001 0011100101 0110111 10111101 1111001 1111010101 000101 100100101 01001010 11001001001 011011010 101110111 11001010 01110101 10100111 110101101 1101101 11101110 1101100 1110100111 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 61
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, sing are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words over, how, o are repeated.
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