This is an analysis of the poem Restlessness that begins with:
At the open door of the room I stand and look at the night,
Hold my hand to catch the raindrops, that slant into sight,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdccd aaaeaefffXf agaghhhh ddiiahha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,11,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010011111101 1110101111001 01010010011000001001 1001001010101 1010001001010111011 11101001001 101100110111001 01011011110101 01101101011100101 101011100101101 10111111111111001 01001110101101 10101111 010010101111 110001101001 111101010001 10100100101011 01011010101 01010111101 0011010101011 1110111111101 110010101100 11110 10010001001001 1011111110000011 11110010110111101 11110100100101 111110100101101 1110110010001011 111011001001111 011111011011011101 110010100110 1010110101101 10110111111001 1111100111001 1011010010 101110110111 1111100101101 1111011011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 439
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; room, of, to, my, and, me, always, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, always, till are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leaves is repeated).
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