This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Li that begins with:
When I hear laughter from a tavern door,
When I see crowds agape and in the rain... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXeXeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111000101 1111011001 1011110101 01010101011 1101011100 1111010111 1101111101 1111111111 1001011111 1111110101 1111110100 0101011101 1101011111 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word when is repeated.
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