This is an analysis of the poem The Watcher that begins with:
I think I hear the sound of horses' feet
Beating upon the graveled avenue.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXaX ababXX cacXcX dedecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 10010100101 1001011101 1111110111 1001010101 1110010001 1101011101 0111010001 1111010101 1100010101 11110101011 1101010101 0101010101 0101011111 1001110101 11100101010 0101010111 1001010001 01101010111 0101011001 0111100101 1101000101 1111111111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Watcher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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