This is an analysis of The Wind by Amy Lowell.

He shouts in the sails of the ships at sea,
He steals the down from the honeybee,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbCCDDeeffCCDD aXeXCCDD
  • Stanza lengths: 16,8,
  • Metre: 1100100111 110100101 1101011011 111110101 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101 111011101 110100111 010011110010 0101111010 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101 011111101 010110100 111101001 010100110 1010101 1010101 11111 10011101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

he, wind

Anaphora

he, the

Epiphora

wind