This is an analysis of the poem On The Porch that begins with:
As I lie roofed in, screened in,
From the pattering rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAABBA CDEDafbabXagffgffgaahh CDEDXAAABBA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,22,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 001001 0101 111 111 110101 110110 1111 1011 0101 10111 10110 01100111 0101 1101001 0100 11 0101010 1011 010011111 0101110 010110 10010110 01110 001001 11001 1110 110010 110110 1111 1011 0101 1111010 001001 0101 111 111 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of On The Porch;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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