Said The West Wind by Isabella Valancy Crawford: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Said The West Wind that begins with:

1 I love old earth! Why should I lift my wings,
2 My misty wings, so high above her breast... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaaaX dcacbaaefeX cghagcXgXcXebXXcfaddgehhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,11,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111111 11101110101 111011101011 11101110001 11111010101 11111110101 11111110011 11101110101 11111111111 100111101001 11111010101 11101010101 10111110101 11101010101 11101111101 111010010011 11111111111 11111010101 111110111001 10110110111 11101111001 11011001101 11011010101 10111011101 10101110101 11101110101 10111010101 10111000101 101010110111 11101111101 11111011101 11111110111 11111010101 11101110111 11111010101 11101111111 111010011101 11101010111 11100010001 111001011101 101010101001 11100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, i, on, of, and are repeated.

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