This is an analysis of the poem Going West that begins with:
Just as I came
Into the empty, westward--facing room,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXacccbbXbbdeXdebXdefef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111 0001010101 010111 011011 010101100101 10100001110 1001011101 010001 1101011101 1101010101 1101110001 011100010101 1100110 11110 1010101 1001010101 11011101101 110011110101 11001010 11111100011 1100101 0101010101 1001110111 01010010101 01001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 912
- Average number of words per stanza: 161
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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.
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- summary of Going West;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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