This is an analysis of the poem Sorley’s Weather that begins with:
When outside the icy rain
Comes leaping helter-skelter, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fbfb gXgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1101010 1111101 101010 1110101 10110010 1110111 101110 0111101 1101110 1110101 111010 011101000 1001110 1011101 101110 11110101 11011100 10100111 101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word shall is repeated.
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