This is an analysis of the poem Which Way That Wind Actually Blew To Blow that begins with:

Often complaints are heard,
From grown men and women......

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXa XbXXb bacddc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111 011110 1111110100 110101000 001100010 10000 1011010010 1110100010 0010111010 101010001 1001001010 1111101 010100100 101011101 11111000101 001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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