This is an analysis of the poem The Room that begins with:
Through that window—all else being extinct
Except itself and me—I saw the struggle ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXbccddecbbaXaaXdXeXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111001 01011111010 01001100101 0111110111 1101010101 1101010101 1001000110 0101101011 1011111011 11110111010 010101 1011 0111000101 10010111000 1001011101 1011110111 01110111 010 0111010 101 0101111101 01010111110 11110100100 0111110101 1001011111 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1125
- Average number of words per stanza: 188
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; pain, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pain is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase pain connects the lines.
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- summary of The Room;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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