This is an analysis of the poem Till The Wind Gets Right that begins with:

OH the breeze is blowin' balmy
And the sun is in a haze;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXcXdXdacXCefbfcceC
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 1010001 10111010 0010001 11101011 1010101 11111010 10111 11111010 1010101 10101110 1010101 10101010 1010101 11111011 10111 11101110 1010111 101011 1010111 111001010 0011001 1010110 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of Till The Wind Gets Right;
  • central theme;
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