This is an analysis of the poem The End Of May that begins with:
How the wind howls this morn
About the end of May,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcabcbdebdedfbdfbfgaXga
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101 010101 111101 010101 1011101 1110011 011101 111111 110111 010101 100101 011111 110101 110111 100101 111101 111101 100110 110101 010101 110101 110101 110101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 628
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; more is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, more are repeated.
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