This is an analysis of the poem At Her Window that begins with:
To-night a strong south wind in thunder sings
Across the city. Now by salt wet flats,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeefbacagh bgciaad jkchbj dedcbfbh kbljjifmabbbXdl fehcdaambjlffkfgjajX laXbbmed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,7,6,8,15,20,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101110101 0101011111 1101000101 1101100111 1101001101 1101010101 11110101001 1101100101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 01011101001 1111010101 1111010001 0101010101 0111010101 0100010101 01011101001 1101011111 11110101001 1101010101 1101000101 1101011001 110011111001 1101010101 1101011111 11010110101 0101111111 0111010111 0111010101 11010101001 1101010101 1100010101 1100010101 1101110111 0001111111 1101010111 11010101001 1011011101 0111101111 1100110101 1111011111 0100111101 1111000101 0101011101 11011100101 0101110101 0101110101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010111 00101110011 1111010001 1101010111 1101111111 1111001101 1111010101 1101010101 11111100001 1101110101 0101011100 0001011111 1101011101 1101011101 1101011101 1101111001 1101011111 01010101001 1101010101 11110101010 1111000111 0100101101 1011011101 0111110111 11110110100 1111010111 11111101001 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, to, and, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word to at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of At Her Window;
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