This is an analysis of the poem On The Stairs that begins with:
As I was going down those ill-famed stairs
you were coming through the door, and for a second...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccddbXabXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011111 101010111010 111101011111 11111101101 1110111011 11010111 11101110101110 11011010111011 01111011110101 01 11011 110111110 1111101 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 574
- Average number of words per stanza: 111
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, our are repeated.
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