This is an analysis of the poem In The Storm that begins with:

Over heaven clouds are drifted;
In the trees the wind-witch cries;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXbbabXbXc X deddeedeXffc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,1,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110 0010111 10101010 10111110 1011111 1110001 11011100 1011011 1011111 11111110 11101100 1011101 1 10101010 1011101 10111010 10111110 1011101 1011101 11011010 1011111 1111111 11111010 11111010 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; that is repeated.

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