This is an analysis of the poem The Long Small Room that begins with:

THE long small room that showed willows in the west
Narrowed up to the end the fireplace filled, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab acXc dbdb eXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01111111001 10100101011 1111110111 1111001011 10010110101 00010101001 0111111111 01101101101 111111111011 11011110101 1101010011 11010100111 1011100111 10011101010 11110011011 01011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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