This is an analysis of the poem A Scare that begins with:
There are noises that freeze up the blood,
There's the sound of the burglar at night ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcacA dedeXaCA bdbdcaCAXededcaCA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 101001011 111001101 001101111 111011011 11011001 101001101 101011001 01111011 100000101 111111001 01011111 1011110110 111101011 111001101 101011001 01111001 11001011 111001001 111011101 01111001 111111101 111001101 101011001 11101101 111001011 111011011 11011011 11101011 111111111 111001101 101011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; may, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word bed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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