This is an analysis of the poem The Watchman that begins with:
My Claudia, it is long since we have met,
So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcbdefg aXddfaaffhie fdbfddcXbjkfadcfd dkebbXbbcXcdda dlafgdmbdff cXjdnXhbddeocaeelfhe phblnf cbXbhbmXbdk ocdpbod fmhadabhfpdXiemgjpagbopefaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,17,14,11,20,6,11,7,27,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000011111 1111110101 11011101001 1001000101 1111010101 11111100101 1111010111 11010010101 1101010011 1100110011 11010011000 0100111111 10001010101 1110111101 1111110101 0111110111 0101010101 1101010001 0101010101 01110101010 0101110101 1001001101 1101011101 11111100101 11010100011 1101010101 1111011101 1110101101 0101111001 1111011101 1111110011 11111001100 1101111101 11001110111 1011010101 1111100101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110111 1101011100 11010100011 1110110101 1101010111 1111011100 1111111100 1111110101 1111100101 011101010 1101111101 1111011111 11110011111 0100111111 1100110101 0111010101 1101111101 0101010001 1111010101 1101010111 1100010101 1011011101 01110010101 10110100101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 100010100001 1101110101 0111110101 11110110 1101110101 0111010101 1011010011 0111011101 1101110101 1111010100 1101110101 1111011101 1101011111 0101100101 0110011101 0110000101 1011110111 1100010101 10011111101 1101111101 1011010101 0111111111 1111001111 010101101 1001011101 0100110111 101011111 1110100101 1001010111 1111111111 1011010101 0101111101 1101011101 1101010101 1000110100 1111111100 0111110101 10110100111 1010111100 1111011101 1011011100 1011111101 1111011111 1101111111 1111011111 1101010101 1111111011 1111111101 1111010001 0100010101 1111110101 11001111111 0101110101 11111101010 1101110101 1100111101 0111110101 1100011100 1101011111 1100010111 1101010111 1100010001 1101110100 1111010001 1011011110 1001110101 0101111101 1111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 133
- 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, thy, he, wise, i, had, thought, for, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
The author used the same words i, then at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word god at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Watchman;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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