This is an analysis of the poem The Desert Wind that begins with:
I went with happy heart (how happy!) a while since
Behind my camel flocks,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcacBC dabdaaBC efbefcBC gbbgbcBC XXbXbcBC hXbhfcBC iabiacBC hcbXccBC jhbjhcBCXhabhccBC
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110011 011101 1011101101 101101 0101 010101111001 01100101 1111 110101110111 100111 0111001111 111111 1011 110101010101 01100101 1111 0101001111111 010111 1111110101 110011 11001 111100111111 01100101 1111 010101111111 1000111 1100110111 111111 1101 0101010111001 01100101 1111 100100111100 110110 10111111111 111111 1111 0101011111101 01100101 1111 110011111101 0111100 0101010111 111101 11011 111101110101 01100101 1111 010111110111 011101 1101110111 110101 0101 110111011101 01100101 1111 1111011101010 111100 1111011101 1111100 1101 1101111111 01100101 1111 111101110101 110011 1111111111 011101 0101 111101111111 01100101 1111 111101110101 110101 1111011111 010111 1101 011101100101 01100101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 80
- 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; or, and, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, ah, of are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word eyes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Desert Wind;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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