This is an analysis of the poem West Wind, The that begins with:
Beneath the forest's skirts I rest,
Whose branching pines rise dark and high,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xbeb dada fgfg eeee hihi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 11011111 11010001 01010101 11011101 011101010 11011101 011111010 111100110 11010111 111111011 01111101 11011101 110011111 01110111 11110111 11011111 100011001 01001101 10111111 010100101 01011001 11110111 11110101 11111101 11010111 10110101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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