This is an analysis of the poem The Wind In The Hemlock that begins with:

STEELY stars and moon of brass,
How mockingly you watch me pass!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffbbcghhiccjijcgjaffcaff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 11001111 11111111 11010111 100100111 11011111 01001111 1110101 11001111 11110101 10010101 11011111 00110111 10000101 11111101 01011100 1010001 01011101 11111111 01011110 10001101 1111101 11110111 11000101 01110001 0110100 10110101 01110101 0110101 10001101 11110101 0110011 01010101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 217
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, no are repeated.

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  • summary of The Wind In The Hemlock;
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  • history of its creation;
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