This is an analysis of the poem The Shadow On The Blind that begins with:
Last night I walked among the lamps that gleamed,
And saw a shadow on a window blind,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bcbc dadX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010111 1101110101 0101110101 011101 1101011011 1101010101 1111011011 111111 110111110010 11001011111 11111101110 010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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