This is an analysis of the poem South Wind that begins with:
Where have you been, South Wind, this May-day morning,—
With larks aloft, or skimming with the swallow, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aXab bXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101101110 01011100010 101000111010 111110100010 110110110010 1111101010 11110101010 111011101010 1000101011011 111011001011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, your are repeated.
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