This is an analysis of the poem The Hospital Window that begins with:
I have just come down from my father.
Higher and higher he lies ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXbc dcebcb fgaXbf hibbij ikdbha ckefac abilfd jagdXc XieeflA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 1011011 0110011 1101010 111111 11111010 11011001 1101011 11011001 01011011 11111110 110110010 11001001 11011101 111011010 10111011 10101011 110010010 1000010110 10011110 100111 1111011 0010110010 11111001 001001110 010010011 101011111 01111111 110111010 1111110 101101011 01001011 11111101 10101111 111011110 11010101 0111110 101101111 1011110 11111001 11001001 01101001 101011011 001110110 10110011 011100111 10101101 110010010 1110110 110111010 11111001 1101010 0101011 111110110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, as are repeated.
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- summary of The Hospital Window;
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