This is an analysis of the poem Why He Was There that begins with:
Much as he left it when he went from us
Here was the room again where he had been... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011101 1101011110 1111011101 1111010100 1101100101 1111001101 1101101011 1111111000 1111011101 1111010101 0111110011 1111010011 1111110111 11110111110
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; he, as, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
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