This is an analysis of the poem During Wind And Rain that begins with:

THEY sing their dearest songs--
He, she, all of them--yea, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcDa cbebeAc fbbbbDfXcbabaAa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 111001 1011011 1101 00101011 11001 10111101 110101 101101 100111 10101 1110101 110000 10111101 11101001 11101 100101 001001 1111001 11001 1010101001 1100111 111001 111011 10111 1101111 110000 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; and is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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