This is an analysis of the poem A Light In The Window that begins with:
Rain and wind and candlelight
And let us pray a prayer to-night:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AabbccAaddeeAaccffaaggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 11110101 110011101 100101101 110110101 011110111 1111101 111110101 110011101 01011101 010110101 11111101 1111101 11110101 1100100111 01010101 011110101 11100101 110110101 10111111 110110101 10011101 110110111 110110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 889
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rain connects the lines.
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