This is an analysis of the poem The Watcher that begins with:
From out a windy cleft there comes a gaze
Of eyes unearthly, which go to and fro...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacddcee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011101 0101011011 0101010101 0101110101 1011010110 11110101001 11010011111 1010010111 10111101010 10010111110 10011001110 11001001110 01001011111 0101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 595
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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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- summary of The Watcher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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