This is an analysis of the poem Mad Song that begins with:
The wild winds weep
And the night is a-cold;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXXXcc dcdcdeXe bfbfddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111 101001 1101 11110 110101 100101 1010101 0111 1001 0110 0101 11110 110101 110101 1110101 10101 101001 0101 101111 10101 1111001 0110101 111111 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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