This is an analysis of the poem The Lamp At The Window that begins with:
Like some gaunt ghost the tempest wails
Outside my door; its icy nails... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXabccccddaddaeeffgghggheebbffiffijjccaaaaaacckkeeieeikkbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 11011111 010101001 01010111 11111101 11010111 01110111 11011111 11111111 11010111 01111101 01010101 11110111 11010111 10110111 11010101 11010101 11011111 11010101 11110101 11010111 01010101 01010101 11011111 11110101 11010101 11010101 11110111 01110101 11010001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01010111 11011101 11111101 11011101 11111101 01011101 11110101 01011101 10111101 11010101 01111101 11110101 10010111 11011101 11110100 11110111 01010101 11010011 0101111001 01111111 01110101 11011111 01110101 01110111 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2252
- Average number of words per stanza: 422
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, all are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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