This is an analysis of the poem Winter Rain that begins with:

Wild clouds roll up, slag-dark and slaty gray,
And in the oaks the sere wind sobs and sighs,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba Xcdbcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111111101 1001011111 1101010111 1001011101 0111111101 1111110001 1001011111 10001100001 1001011101 0111110101 1100111101 1011010011 0101111101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.

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