This is an analysis of the poem The Lamplight Camp that begins with:
Whenever on the windowpane
I hear the fingers of the rain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc dXeeaa ffdddd ffXXgg hhccii ddaajj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11010001 10011101 01110111 10011101 11110101 01100111 11110101 11111101 11011111 01110111 111101001 11110101 00110101 11010111 00110101 110010111 01011101 11111101 11111111 01010101 11011100 11110111 11010101 11010111 11101111 11011101 11011111 10110101 0111001001 11110111 11111101 11110001 11110101 11110111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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