This is an analysis of the poem I Sit By The Window that begins with:

I said fate plays a game without a score,
and who needs fish if you've got caviar?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddXacc aXeeff ggcchX fXhXbX hhecff Xc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111011101 010001011101 1111111111 11101011110 111111001010 11010101001 1101101101 10011101010 0101111101001 11101001011 11101111001 11011101001 1111110101 11010100101 10101010001 1110101111 1111011111 11101110001 1011011101 11011010001 101010101 1110101111 1101011100 1111011111 111110110101 11101101010 1111111110 1110100011101 01010100101 01001011010 110011110010 11011101010 1100110011010 11001101010101 101010110101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, no are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines out is repeated).

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  • summary of I Sit By The Window;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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