This is an analysis of the poem Year That Trembled that begins with:
YEAR that trembled and reel'd beneath me!
Your summer wind was warm enough--yet the air I breathed froze me;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011011 110111011011111 011110111101 1111010111011 110110101100010 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word must is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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