This is an analysis of For a Moment The Wind Died by Theodore Dreiser.

For a moment the wind died,
And then came the sense of quieting leaves;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbaaXXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1010011 1110101001 11101100011 1101000111 1100111001 011101 11011101 11110001 1101 10101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

and, then, of

Anaphora

and