This is an analysis of the poem The Shepherd Wind that begins with:
When hills and plains are powdered white,
And bitter cold the north wind blows,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX bdbd baba adad bebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111101 11010111 01110001 010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 111100 11110101 10010101 11011101 110011 01010011 11010111 01001101 010001 11011101 11010101 11010101 010100 01110101 11011111 11110111 110001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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- summary of The Shepherd Wind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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