This is an analysis of the poem The Twenty-Second Of December that begins with:
Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New-England's strand,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dXdb efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 00110111 111111001 11011111 11111101 111101010 11011011 010011111 110101010 11010101 01000101 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; how, should, their are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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