This is an analysis of the poem Voices At The Window that begins with:
Who is it that, this dark night,
Underneath my window plaineth?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa bXbXb bcbcb dXdXd bebeb afafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011 10111010 0011011 10111100 10010101 1011111 01111010 1111101 1011001 1110100 1010001 10111010 1010101 11111010 0101111 1101101 11111110 1110011 011001010 0010101 1011101 01111010 1011100 10101010 1010101 1110101 11111010 1110111 10111010 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, time are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word time is repeated.
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- summary of Voices At The Window;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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