This is an analysis of the poem Interim that begins with:

The room is full of you!—As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcX deXXfdghhgiX aajckfiXXlmah anojacahXa hcapci hgdaXdcdkkiXdfokichoXhnjklXccioqjhbdhmpkchadobhkppaoiXiphjdXrhhoq X hpfdadddjcjiqdia hhcflhaohhdfoohjdpd pcqhlokmqhfdnolrjji qboXiXabXdpkf odedXlhsbkbrabrkda aohXacddghX Xdas
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,12,13,10,6,65,1,16,19,19,13,18,11,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010100110 1101011111 0100010100 11010111010 1101010101 1101110100 010101100100 01010101010 11010100101 1101011101 110001101001 1111100111 1101111111 0011010101 1100010001 11001101011000 1111111111 1011010101 1101010111 1101110101 0111111111 11100100101 0111010000 01001101010 01011101110 0101010101 11000011101 1011011101 0111010101 1011111101 10010001001 111100010101 1101111101 1101000110 1101111111 1110111101 01111010111 11001000010 1111010001 0111110111 1001110001 1001111101 0100010111 1111010101 100011 1110111101 1011000101 0011111111 1011011111 10010111010 1101010101 111101001011 111101 1101 1011110111 1101011011 11110101110 11011100001 0111111101 1111111101 1011010111 1010111101 1111111001 1110111101 1001001111 001010111010 011111001010 11010100011 011100001111 1111010011 1101011101 110011101110 1100011101 0100100101 0111010001 1111011101 11011111010 1111110111 1111010001 11111100111 1001011101 1111110111 1101000100 1111111111 1100110101 1111010101 1111010101 01111001010 11101100101 111100010101 11001110101 1111010101 1111110100 0101110111 11001111111 1000111111 11110101001 1101011011 11010101110 1101110111 1011110111 010 1011111 0111010101 1011111111100 110100000101 1111110101 10110010001 1111011101 11011101110 1011111111100 1101111111 0101010111 1111011101 1101010101 0100010110 11000100001 1101011101 11111100111 10010101001 0100111101 1111110111 0111010101 10110110100 1100110111 1101010111 0101110101 1011011111 1111011111 111100010111 11110010101 1111101111 0111010011 1101000101 0111010101 0101010100 1100011011 1011101111 0011011101 0111010101 1011011111 010001111101 0110011101 01000010101 01011001001 0100010111 1101111100 11010001101 01110111010 0001010011 1111111111 11001100101 110100111010 1101011011 1110110110 1101111111 11011100101 00010011011 0101010100 1101010101 1001010001 1101111111 0100010011 0100010001 0101110001 11011111010 110001101001 1101011101 111110101010 1111111111 0101110110 1011100101 10110011101 1101110100 11010011101 1011000101 1011110101 110101 10111 11001011111 1111010100 1101110101 1111110111 1100010101 1011011001 0101011111 1101110101 1011111100 1101010111 10010001101 1111100101 011000011010 0111010001 10111011001 1100010101 10110110010 1111011111 1011110101 1001000101 01110101100 0111011101 1011110101 1001111111 11010101001 01001010101 110000100001 01011101010 111110011010 00110011111 1111110101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 212
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, you, to, that, day, your, i, it, would, god, summer, could, in, of, its, round are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, that, you, somehow, in, are, now are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thought is repeated).

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  • summary of Interim;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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