This is an analysis of the poem All Saint's Day that begins with:
Why blow'st thou not, thou wintry wind,
Now every leaf is brown and sere,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdd eeeebbcc fafaaaaa acaceegg hchcaahh gegeddbb ididggcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110010111 11010101 01010001 11011001 01011111 010011111 01111100101 11010111 110110101 10000101 11011101 11111101 11010101 10110001 1001110101 10110101 101101001 11011101 011101011 11010101 11011101 101100101 01001010101 101101001 01000101 11010101 11011101 11011101 110010101 01110101 01010111010 10111101 110010101 11011101 010111001 11011101 01001101 1101110101 110101010101 11011111 01010101 11110101 111010101 111111011 110100101 01001011001 101111010101 110010101 10111101 110011111 11000101 11110101 10111101 11010001 1111010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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