This is an analysis of the poem To The Western Wind that begins with:
SWEET western wind, whose luck it is,
Made rival with the air, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb caca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 110001 01100101 110101 11111101 1001010 11100111 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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