By My Window Have I For Scenery by Emily Dickinson: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem By My Window Have I For Scenery that begins with:

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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1110111100 10100010 0011010000010000 00100100010 011110100000010 11110010 10101100100 10100100010 110010010100 10101000010 1010000100100 01000010010100 0010001000010100 101000001 010100100000 110100100 10000110 10000110 101000101 11100101111 1100000 10111100100 001000100 100000110000 00100000000
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.

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  • summary of By My Window Have I For Scenery;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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