This is an analysis of the poem The Intruder that begins with:
THERE is a smell of roses in the room
Tea-roses, dead of bloom;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbbccccccccddddeeeebbbbffffggggXhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1001010001 110101 1010111001 110101 0100010101 010001 1101110101 110101 0101111111 111101 1111011111 110101 0111011101 110101 1111011101 011111 1111011111 010111 1101010101 111101 1111011111 110101 1101011101 010111 1111010011 110101 1111010101 011111 1101111111 010111 1101011101 000111 1111111111 100111 1001010101 100101 1111010100 010101 1001010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1449
- Average number of words per stanza: 276
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, and, she, that, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The Intruder;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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