This is an analysis of the poem The Orphan Maid that begins with:

November's hail-cloud drifts away,
November's sunbeam wan ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeXeXcdcdfffXXfbfgfgXcdcXgdgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 010111 11010101 111101 01010111 010101 01111101 010101 110111101 111101 11110111 011101 01011101 011101 11010101 111111 11010111 110101 01100111 1101011 110101110 0100101 11011101 11111 11011101 110101 11110111 010101 11010101 110111 11010101 110101 11111111 011101 11110101 1100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1200
  • Average number of words per stanza: 215
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; her, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word november's is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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