This is an analysis of the poem My Garret that begins with:

Here is my Garret up five flights of stairs;
Here's where I deal in dreams and ply in fancies,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaa bcbcaa adadee fdfdgg hihijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011101 11110111010 1001010111 11010111010 1111011111 1111011111 1011110111 10111101010 1111111111 100111001100 1111011111 1101000101 1011010001 11011111110 1011010101 1111000101110 1011011111 1011110101 1011001101 10010101010 1011111111 11110011010 1101010101 1111011101 1011011111 11110101110 1101110101 11011101010 1111010111 0101010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; my, and are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word here at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of My Garret;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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