This is an analysis of the poem Hymm To The Winds that begins with:

To you, troop so fleet,
That with winged wandering feet, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbaadXXdeeaffa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111 1011001 10111 101100 1011001 0111 101100 111101 1011 0101010 111100 1101 111011 110111 1001 110101 1101101 0011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 461
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • 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.

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