This is an analysis of The Hurricane by William Cullen Bryant.
Lord of the winds! I feel thee nigh,
I know thy breath in the burning sky!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccddeeff ccaagghhhh hXiijXkk ffhhjjllXkkhhcckkiibb
- Stanza lengths: 4,8,10,8,21,
- Metre: 10011111 111100101 11100101001 101000101 1110100101 1010101011 101111001 010110101 101010001 101010111 1010011101 111010101 110110101 00101000101 11110101001 011010111 011100101 010110101 001010101 1010110101 100010101 1010111001 10110111101 0101101100 10011111 1011100101 101110111 010100100 111101101 01001001001 101100101 0100100101 110010111 001000100101 11101101011 0010110011 10101100101 110100101 110110111 0100100101 1001101001 110010101 111111011 00101111011 1111011011 0100101111 010101101 0010101101 111100101 0100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
i, and
Anaphora
a, how
