This is an analysis of the poem Windy Night that begins with:
Last night it was an intensely windy night—
a night of countless stars; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacbbdef a dabbbcXde a XXccXadc XXX Xgcadegf hXaehXe dbfg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,9,1,8,3,8,7,4,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011010101 010101 1010110110101 111000101000011 111001011001001 011110011111 11111 1011010110 01100110110101 0110100111 1011010 010101001 1110100011 0110100111 00101011010111 00101100101001 10101101011101 0101101 0100010101 111110101 11110001100001 1111 1101010011 0101111101 0010010100 10111101011 01101 010101100101 01010010010001 001001001001 0010101010001 11100100101 111110101011110 010100101001 011101111 1110010011001 1110100 101001000110 010101011 110101001011 010101 0010001011 110000010 00100110100100010 11010110 011100101010 111011101100101 01101001010001101 1001001010100101 110100010 01011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; night, in, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, to, i are repeated.
The author used the same word my at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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