This is an analysis of the poem What Weeping Face that begins with:
WHAT weeping face is that looking from the window?
Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101100010 110111001 00111001111 00010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is is repeated.
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