This is an analysis of the poem The Window Of The Tobacco Shop that begins with:
They stood among many others
close to a lighted tobacco shop window....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbabc XcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 10010011110 11111 110010001 00100100110 10101010101 011111010 11010110 010001010010 11110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The Window Of The Tobacco Shop;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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