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

I.
She stood at Greenwich, motionless amid... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcXXXdX eXeffcfcX eegX gghh babii XgjX hhbcX fbkb gbdd blcX agmg bbbb aaaX X Xnoo bbdd bbpp ookk bbkk oobb aaee X XXgcmimi qdqdcdcd Xjmjfjfj flXloXoo mcmXXXqc cdcdbeXe X jjjXjjjfmlXXmmXlmXbXbagffX a cgXgXgdg ocqXidrd Xcgcmbgggb mefegsos mg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,9,4,4,5,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,8,8,8,8,8,8,1,26,1,8,8,10,8,9,1,11,14,10,16,8,8,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111010001 0101010100 11011100101 0011011110 0101001111 1111011101 10111110101 1101011111 1100011101001 1101110001 0011110110 1101110101 11011010001 1111010111 11111111110 1101001101 011111010010 110111101010 111000100010101 11111101010101 100010101010111 10111101110101 101011101000101 101110101101111 101110101110101 1010011001001001 111111011111110 10111010101111 10 110010101111101 11100100010101 101010101011111 011010101110101 1010101010001101 111110101110101 101010111111101 110100100010101 101010111110101 10111010111001 10 1110111001 1011111 01111001001 10100111 00101110101 11110001 101111011 100100110111 11110100111 1110100111 011010011010 0100111110 1100110111 1100101111 0100010110010 11110101111 11111001 01001101 11111001 110101 10111101 11110001 11011101 011101 1 0110111010111100 111101101010001 111010101010001 101000100011001 0110001001010110 001110101110101 110000101010001 111100101010111 111000100110101 011100101011001 011010100010001 101010101010111 111111101011011 1010011001100101 101010101000101 101010111110101 101010101010101 101010101110101 101010100010101 1010010101101101 110010101010101 110010101110101 101111111111101 101111001010101 1100101011100011 001010101001111 1010111110100101 101110101001111 1 11101010 1110101 11101010 1010111 10101010 1010101 10111010 00110111 101101110 1100101 10111010 1010111 11001110 0110111 11101110 1010111 11111110 1111101 00101010 1110101 111001010 10010101 11111110 1110001 100111110 1110001 00101011 10100001 11100011 110101010 111001011 1010101 00011010 1011111 10110100 1110111 10101100 1110111 01101110 1111101 11101010 1110101 11101010 0010101 11101011 1010001 10101110 1011101 1 1011001 10011101 10111001 001011001 10111011 10011101 11111011 101111110 1111010010010 110100010011 010010010010 1111010010100 111010011110 110011110010 11101001110 111110111111 1011001010 101011101100 01010010011 1010011110 1110101111 1101111101 0100101 111101101 1110111111 111001010 1 1100110 100101 0001010 110111 10111100 111101 101111001 010111 11010100 111111 001100100 001101 01010010 110101 01010011 1110011 1011011 110101 1100010 110101 1101110 1101001 01111101 10010101 100100111 110011 1101110 1100101 1100010 001001 1100010 1101110 11100101 0100010 1101010 111111 11010101 0100101 10101010 010101 101011101 01010101 1100111 1 11000010 010001 11100001 110101 1101010 110111 00110101 100111001 10010111 11011101 010011 1101010 1111001 10111111 110101 01010010 110101 11111111 111101 1110100 010111 10111101 11011101 01111101 111111 1111011 110101 11010001 101111 0111010 100001 11011111 110101 1101010 101101 1001110 010101 11010101 0100101 1100010 011101 11011111 1101100 110100100 101101 111001001 010101 1100110 110001 1111010 1100101 0111010 000101 100101001 010100 1001010 100101 1111001010 110111 1111110 1110010 11110101 0111010 1101111 010101 100010111 111101 1110010 111101 110111001 010101 1101010 101111 11110111 110001 11010010 110001 10111001 1011101 1111011 110111 01110111 01110111 11011001 010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 313
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, his, at, as, or, of, that, to are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Charades;
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  • history of its creation;
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