This is an analysis of the poem The Writer that begins with:

In her room at the prow of the house
Where light breaks, and the windows are tossed with linden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXb cdX XbX deX cef cXg fhi eXX bah iXXXcge
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001101001 111101011010 110010010 11001110 0011001001101 101110010 111001 00100111110010 11001010 11001110 1000111101010 0101001 01110010 1110100100110 01101010 10100110 111011011001 11101001 101010100 11101010101001 110111 1101010 10010101101 00111011 1111110 1010100111110 111001 01010011 1001110110 11001001 0011010110 011111101011 111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same words and, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Writer;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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