This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet -- The Peasant that begins with:
WIDE o'er the barren plain the bleak wind flies,
Sweeps the high mountain's top, and with its breath ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba caac daadee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11001010111 1011011001 10110100101 11001110101 0101000101 10110010101 1101001101 0101000101 1001110101 11011110101 1011010011 11010101001 1101011101 1001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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