This is an analysis of the poem On The Death Of An Old Woman that begins with:
Often I listen full of horror at the door
And when I arrive it seems to me that someone fled,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b X a X c X b b X cXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010101 1110101011111 101111 10010111111 1110101001110 1111001010 11011011101010 1111111101 10100110101 11011111010 110101001010010 1111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 9
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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