This is an analysis of the poem At A Window that begins with:

Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXcada bXdeecXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110 1111111 01010 1110111 11101110 0110111 111101010 1110101 0101010011 010110011 1001100 001011 10011 110100101 1100101011 1110010 1101101 1111010 00101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • 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; give, me, to, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.

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