This is an analysis of the poem The Watch that begins with:
Are those her feet at last upon the stair?
Her trailing garments echoing there?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bb b ccX d dd eee Xddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,1,3,1,2,3,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 010101001 010001 0101011101 11010101 110001 11010010011 11010111 11010111 1101101101 01110101 001101 0011110101 10110101 110111 11101111011 11010111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
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- summary of The Watch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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