This is an analysis of The West Wind by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
The wind that blows from the west
Taps at my window, sighing;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXbdbcbAbdeXe XbXbdfAf
- Stanza lengths: 16,8,
- Metre: 0111001 1111010 1110101 1111010 1011000 1101010 1011101 1001010 1010101 1110110 0111001 0111010 1010101 00101010 1111111 0111110 0011101 00101010 111101 0110110 1111001 1110010 0111001 1011110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
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