This is an analysis of the poem The Watchman that begins with:

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Through jewelled windows in the walls... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbbbccdeed afafccbbbb cgcghhicci ijijXikbbk bibikklhhl lalahhXXcc dfdfhhdbbddfdfiimiim Xhiheegbbg nbnbhhdhhd cXcXllcbbc ghghccilli hfhfccXoohXlalaiicccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,10,10,10,10,10,20,10,10,10,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 1 110010001 010111 01010111 1001010 11010111 01011101 010101 11010101 010100001 010101 11111101 010111 111100001 110101 11010101 00110101 100101 10110111 11010111 010111 01111111 010111 11100111 110101 01010101 11110011 010101 011111011 11110101 110101 01010111 0111001 01010111 011101 010100110 010011101 010101 01000101 01010111 110101 10010111 010101 01110001 010101 10010001 11000111 010111 11001111 11010001 110101 11010101 010111 00110111 111101 11011101 11010001 110110 111101100 01010111 0111001 01010001 010111 01010101 111101 01110101 10010101 1101001 1100110001 10010011 010111 01011111 100101 1010111 110111 01010101 111101001 110001 010010001 10111101 110101 100010100 010101 01110111 010001 11011101 11010101 011101 100011101 11000111 111011 110101110 010101 010101110 110101 01010101 01110111 010111 01010101 01101001 101101 11010101 1101000 11010111 1101100 11111111 10010101 101111 11010101 01010101 110101 11011101 110101 11111111 0100101 01011111 101100111 101111 01000101 11011001 010101 01010101 110111 11111101 110101 01010101 01000101 0100101 01110111 01010101 110011 11010111 111101 11111101 111101 11010101 01111110 1011001 01010111 11001101 0100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, to, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, its, a, the, and, what, i are repeated.

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  • summary of The Watchman;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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