This is an analysis of The West Wind by William Cullen Bryant.
Beneath the forest's skirts I rest,
Whose branching pines rise dark and high,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd Xbeb dada fgfg eeee hihi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 01010111 11011111 11010001 01010101 11011101 011101010 11011101 011111010 111100110 11010111 111111011 01111101 11011101 110011111 01110111 11110111 11011111 100011001 01001101 10111111 010100101 01011001 11110111 11110101 11111101 11010111 10110101 11011101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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