This is an analysis of the poem The Winds that begins with:
When dark November bade the leaves adieu,
And the gale sung amid the sea-boy's shrouds,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccddceecff g Xhccddiijjee X kllkldlddldlcmggaahlhleg g eddbbeXbXddddllmcddggeggeeccXccccdcdcll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,1,12,1,24,1,39,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010101 1011010111 101111111 0101010101 00110001 01010111 011100100111 100101010101 0101010001 0101110101 1101000101 110110011001 1101000111 1100001111001 11 0011101 1010101 11010101 1000111 11100101 01110101 1011111 1110101 1010111 1010101 101011101 11100111 10 1001001 0010101 001101 1110111 1101010101 011110101 1101010011 1011010111 0101111101 0101110101 11010101011 00101000101 1110111 11010100 1010101 1000111 1101111101 01010100101 1101001001 1101011101 0011111101 1111000101 01110100001 100111 11 110101 110011011 1010010111 101010101 101011101 100100101 01111111 1010101 010111001 1010101 1110101 11010101 100110011 111100101 11111111 01111100 010010111 11011101 00110001 11011101001 110010000111 1100011111 11010101 11001101 10010101 0101011101 10101101 01111101 11010101 11010101 01010111 10101111 1101011101 1111000111 0101010101 11010111001 0111010101 1101011101 1111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 490
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 92
- 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; from, where, i, and, his, o'er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, from, the, o'er, i are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase north connects the lines.
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