This is an analysis of the poem Irony that begins with:
ALL night a great wind blew across the land,
Come fresh from wild and salty seas,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbccacadedefaeaXgfgXaghfXfdXhd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 11011101 01010111 01000100 01011101 010111 1101011101 011101 0101010101 11010101 11010101 01110001 110010111 010110 1101110111 010111 1101110101 101101000 100100101 11010111 110011101 0101000 0101010101 1011101 1101010101 11010101 11011000 11110101 01011101 011101 1111011101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1115
- Average number of words per stanza: 204
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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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- summary of Irony;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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