This is an analysis of the poem Point Bonita that begins with:
The wind blows cold and the wind blow keen,
And the dreary wintry sleet is falling; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX baba cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011110111 1010101010 110011101 0101010 100110101 101110100 1011100101 10111001 1100110101 101010111 100100101 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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