This is an analysis of the poem The Winds that begins with:
I.
Ye winds, ye unseen currents of the air,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbccccc X dedeeeee X fdfddddd X dadaggga a Xbabcccb a ggggdddg X hghgbbbg XXdedeeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1110110001 10110111001 11010011101 10101110101 1101111101 110101001001 0110100101 1101010111 1 11111101001 1101110101 0101011101 0101110111 0101111101 0101110011 1101110111 1001010101 1 01010101101 00111111101 0101110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101110011 1101010101 1101010111 1 1101011101 0101111111 1101011101 110010010101 1001010101 11010001001 1101010111 1101010101 1 1111111100 1111110111 1111011101 110001000101 1101010111 11001010111 1101010101 0111010101 1 111101001011 0101010101 0101110101 1011010011 1110010111 11110101001 11010101001 0101011101 1 1111110011 1111110111 1101000101 1001011101 1111111101 01010001111 0101011101 1101010101 1 11110011101 11010100101 1001010101 11010010101 10101110101 0111010101 11111100111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; ye, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, the, and, has, to are repeated.
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