This is an analysis of the poem Renée that begins with:

Rain, and the night, and the old familiar door,
And the archway dim, and the roadway desolate;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab baba bcbc dede bfbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011010101 101111011100 10111101111 011111 101001010001 1101001001001 011011111001 000101 10100101101 1011001001001 11100100100 10001001 10100100111 10101001110 1001001001001 1001010 01101101001 10001001001001 011110101111 01001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, with, that, of are repeated.

    The author used the same word mournful at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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