This is an analysis of the poem Satires Of Circumstance In Fifteen Glimpses Viii: In The St that begins with:

He enters, and mute on the edge of a chair
Sits a thin-faced lady, a stranger there,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXaXbcbXcXddXeefgfg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101001 1011100101 010010100 111111111 1110111100 1011111111 111010100 01110001 010010011 11110101 11001010111 100100001 100100011000 111111101 01110101 1111110010 11011101 100100111 110011001 00110011 11110111 11110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 869
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, of, and are repeated.

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