This is an analysis of the poem The Calm that begins with:
Our storm is past, and that storm's tyrannous rage,
A stupid calm, but nothing it, doth 'suage.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcaddeeffdXdgaaccfffbgdhhiijjkkbbiieeddffddllbfeedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111001 0101110011 0100010111 0101110101 1111110111 01101011101 11001111110 1111011111 0101110111 1111111100 1100011111 11101010111 1111011101 1101011101 0101110101 11010000100 1101010111 1011011101 1100010111 11111010101 11111111010 110011111110 1001000101 1111101101 1101011101 1101111101 1111001101 1100110111 0001011111 1101011101 1001000111 11001010101 11001000101 11110010011 1011110100 01111001101 0101011101 1111001111 1001011101 1001100101 010010110101 0101111111 1111111111 01001110101 1111101011 0101111101 11011111001 0111110101 1111111111 1001111101 1111110101 0111011111 1011111101 1101110000 11110101111 1111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2565
- Average number of words per stanza: 460
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; as, and, or, all, he, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, like, of are repeated.
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