This is an analysis of the poem I Stood Against The Window that begins with:
I STOOD against the window
And looked between the bars,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aa aX ab a b cX cb aaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,1,1,2,2,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 110101 1101010 10001 1011101 010101 01110100 111101 1111010 110111 11010101 110101 1111110 110111 0100110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 46
- Average number of words per stanza: 8
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of I Stood Against The Window;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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