This is an analysis of the poem Escape At Bedtime that begins with:
The lights from the parlour and kitchen shone out
Through the blinds and the windows and bars; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd ebebbfbf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001011011 101101011 11101111001 101001001 11011001101 101001101 101001111011 111011001 01101101011 101001011 11001101101 101101011 11111111101 111111001 101011011011 101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 365
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, they, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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