This is an analysis of the poem The Walloping Window Blind that begins with:

A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cbab dbXb acec dfgf dbgb caha aigi agbg Xfhf hjjjXifef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100111101 10100101 11110101 1100101 011011101 0110101 101001101011 11000101 010111001 1100101 1111100101 10101001 101011101001 11110101 1100100101 00100101 0101001011 1100101 110111011 1100111 101011011001 101111001 1010010111 1101011 111111000 10101111 1011111101 00100101 110011101 11101001 10100110101 1010001 010111101 1101001 111110101 00100001 1100100101 1100101 111011101 10101001 010111001 1111111 1100110110 101001001 111011111011 11100101 11001101011 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, of, we are repeated.

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

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

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