This is an analysis of the poem The South Wind And The Sun that begins with:
O The South Wind and the Sun!
How each loved the other one... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaccdc ccecccac aafaggXg hhihaaXa Xjfjaaia ddadeeae cckcjjjX lljlggmg iijiccgc nneXjjjj hhlhggag cckXnnen nnfnddcd XejeaaXX jjmjkkjk jjjjlljl eekeccjc ooXoccgc eeceggXgXaabammcm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1011101 1110101 1010110 1010011 11101101 1111101 01011101 111101 1011111 0010101 1101110 0010001 1010001 0010101 10100010 0010111 1011101 1010101 10101010 10100111 1010101 1110101 1100110 110101 1011101 1010101 111011101 111111 1011101 1011101 111011101 111111 1010101 1010101 10111010 1010101 1010101 1111111 10101111 1011101 11001101 0011111 11010101 110101 1010001 0010101 11011101 110101 1011111 1010101 01010101 111111 1110101 1010111 110000101 010100 1010111 1010101 01010101 110111 0010001 10010111 101010101 111101 1110101 1010101 11101010 1010010 1110101 10011101 01000101 010011 1010101 1010101 11011110 0011100 1010101 1110101 01011101 110101 110101 1010111 110101100 110101 1010111 1110101 10111010 0010111 1010111 1010101 11101010 1011111 1011111 1010101 01010101 1101001 1110101 0011101 1100010 10101101 1010101 1010001 10111010 1110101 1010100 1010111 1101010 1010111 1110101 0010101 10101010 0010100 1010101 101001001 11011101 010101 1010111 1111100 0101101 011101 1010111 1010111 11010101 110101 1011101 1011111 100010101 111111 11100101 1010101 00101010 1010101 1010101 1010101 1101010 0010101 1110101 1010101 101000101 110101 1010111 1000111 01010001 111111 1010101 0010111 10100010 1011101 1010101 0010101 10011101 110101 1011101 1110101 1101010 1010011 1111011 1110101 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; full, and, blew, shone, on, dripped, of, sung, wept are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words full, and, over are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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