This is an analysis of the poem When The Watchman Saw The Light that begins with:
Winter, summer, the watchman sat there looking out
from the roof of Atreus' palace....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcdcXedeXeaaddfXfXdaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001011101 00101010 111010011101011 00101110010100101 010111110111 10101001 1010100 101110101111001 011111010 11111011101 0111010101010 00101011001 01010101101 1110101 0100111010 11110100 111111 110110101010 101011010 01101001101 1110111001 1111101000111 1111010010111 11101101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1064
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; good, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines good, great are repeated).
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