This is an analysis of the poem For a Moment The Wind Died that begins with:
For a moment the wind died,
And then came the sense of quieting leaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbaaXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010011 1110101001 11101100011 1101000111 1100111001 011101 11011101 11110001 1101 10101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, then, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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