This is an analysis of the poem Ode To The West Wind that begins with:

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O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcb cdc ded efe ff X gcg chc hih iXi ff X jaj aja jdj dfd ff X faf aga gcg ccc cc a jgj gkg klk lclXcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,3,2,1,3,3,3,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11111101010 1010110011 110110101010 1011111101 1001010111 1100011101 011111111 1101010101 11010000111 010010010111 1011110101 0101110111 1101110101 0101010111 1 11111011010 1111010111 100101010110 1001110111 1011001101 1011100001 01110100011 0001000101 0100010111 00101010101 000100110 1001110101 0100110101 11110110111 1 1111000101 01100100111 1101001011 010101011 11011100110 100010101001 11010101110 1101110001 11100101010 1010011101 0111010111 0101000101 1111001101 1101100111 1 0100111101 0100110101 01010111011 0010111011 11110100010 1010111110 011011001010 111001111 11010111110 1101010111 1111010101 1101010111 01010101111 11111001111 1 11111010100 1011110101 0100110100 0101010101 1101001101 1100110101 1111100101 1101010011 1100110001 10101100001 1011110111 01110100001 0100010011 01011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 75
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, if are repeated.

    The author used the same words of, the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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