This is an analysis of the poem The Night-Wind that begins with:
I have heard the wind on a winter's night,
When the snow-cold moon looked icily through... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbAabCd X EfefEefXX X GhghGghhh X AiaiAaiCd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,9,1,9,1,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110110101 1011111001 110100100 10101001 1110110101 100110101 101101 10110110101 010011100 1 11101101001 10110011001 1011011100 0010101 11101101001 100100101 101101 10110110101 1101001110 1 1110110101 1010110111 1011100101 10101001 1110110101 100110101 111111 101101101001 1011100101 1 1110110101 101001110010 10111000101 10101010 1110110101 10011101 1001110 10110110101 010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, it, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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