This is an analysis of the poem Notes From The Underground that begins with:
The wind is cold and the wind burns.
The wind is cold and the wind is acid. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadaefghaagijkal X jielghlml X llaclfXabcXablin X koiaeaaacmafkjgaalaaai X lfdnlXajnioabfXfp X blfgX X ialeakdle lXlfb apehe iggb ifXalao
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,9,1,16,1,22,1,17,1,5,1,9,5,5,4,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011011 0101101010 1011011101 011010 00101011 0101010 1110110 01110 001010010 111010 1110101 001010 0010100 1100 01100110 010101 111010 0101010 1 11010 110100 0100110 0010110 001100 11100100 1111 11000111 10111 1 001011 11111 101 11110 10101 11100 10100011 1110 110111 001110 10100 1010110 101011001 111001 111111 111001000101 1 110101 001001 1111 11110 01110 1111010 11010 1010 110101 1111 11001 10111001 0011 11101 0100100 0101100001 1110100 01011010001 11010111 01101101 11101010 111001 1 0101101 010011011011 0010101001 11000101 10110101 11011 01001 1101001 0101101011 11011 011101 111110101 0101011011111 0101101 1101010100 11111 1111 1 100110 1111 1111110010 01110010 000110 1 1111111 11111 11010 1011010 0100100 010101 11010101 001000101 100010010 1101 11101 11101 1001011001 101011 1110111 10010 10110 10100001 010110 110101011 1011010100 1110110 10010 10001 1110101 1101 010001010 110001 0101 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 124
- 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; wind, and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in, to, parched are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out, happens are repeated).
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