This is an analysis of the poem After Storm that begins with:
Was there a wind? Tap… tap… Night pads upon the snow with moccasined feet… and it is still… so still… an eagle's feather might fall like a stone....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a babaacXdXdaXaXXabXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111110101010001100111110101110111100111010110100110101110101010111 111100 0101 11000010101 1111010111 111101 111001 1100101 110 11 100010 011 11 110100 11110101 110111 0111 10 101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 398
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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.
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- summary of After Storm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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