This is an analysis of the poem From: Shoemaker's Holiday, Or The Gentle Craft that begins with:
Cold's the wind, and wet's the rain,
Saint Hugh be our good speed ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAB cdcX aadXdcX XXABAB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 110101 1001011011 110101 101010111 111101 11011111 110100 1011101 11010101 100101 1110111 110101 1010111 1111110110101 11111101 1011101 110101 1001011011 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; down is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines down is repeated).
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