This is an analysis of the poem At The Window that begins with:
I have not always had this certainty, this pessimism which reassures the best among us. There was
a time when my friends laughed at me. I was not...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX a XXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101000101011010101111 0111111111101001101001001 1111111110011110010111100 100100010100101001111010101 110111101011011101010 110101101111110110101010 10110101101100110011101010 011111010010010100001110 100111101010101101011101 01111000101011101011011110 1010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 88 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 17
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, not, my, to, of are repeated.
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