This is an analysis of the poem Wind At Midnight that begins with:

Naked night; black elms, pallid and streaming sky!
Alone with the passion of the Wind,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdc ebebffffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10111101101 010010001 00100101110111 1101011001 1001011111 1101010101 100101100101 1001111101 101001 0111111100100 101111 101101010010 0101110101 000101010110 1100100101 11010010110010 110101100101 1011010010110 1001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 422
  • Average number of words per stanza: 74
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; what is repeated.

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