This is an analysis of the poem A Week that begins with:
On Monday night I closed my door,
And thought you were not as heretofore,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc ddd dXd XXX eee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111111 111011101 110101111 11111101 10011101 010101111 11110101 111100101 100011110 11111111 11011111 110111001 11101001 010011101 11101111 11110011 1100101110 11110100 11111101 11111111 01110101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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