This is an analysis of the poem Boy At The Window that begins with:
Seeing the snowman standing all alone
In dusk and cold is more than he can bear....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabXbX cddcdbdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001110101 0111011111 0111010101 0101010101 0101110101 0111001101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010110 1011010111 1101010101 1101000100 1101010111 0100010101 10110110101 1111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; such is repeated.
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- summary of Boy At The Window;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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