This is an analysis of the poem Before Storm that begins with:
There's a grayness over the harbor like fear on the face of a woman,
The sob of the waves has a sound akin to a woman's cry,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc bXXX XdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101010010111010010 010011010100101 101010111001010 00110100101101101 100111110010010 10111101101101 10101011010111010 10011101001011 10011101001110 11110110010110 10011111011010 01010100100101 1011110101101111 11110010101101 110110111010010 111110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
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