This is an analysis of the poem The Little Sister that begins with:
The wind knocks at the window,
And my heart is full of fear,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeghghcbgXghgXciai GXXbGXcXchdhGXcbgXchafgfgfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010 1110101 11110010 1110101 0100010 1110101 1011111 0011111 1111010 111101 1111010 1010111 1101010 1110101 11101110 1010101 1111010 111111 11111010 1110101 1110110 1011111 11101010 1010001 11111010 1011101 1101110 1111101 11111010 1010101 11110110 1010101 1100110 1110111 10111010 1110001 11111010 01101110 11101010 0010101 11111010 0111110 11101010 0010101 11101010 10101001 11111010 1010101 11111110 1011101 11110110 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 795
- Average number of words per stanza: 166
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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 Little Sister;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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