This is an analysis of the poem A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window that begins with:
As I out of a casement sent
Mine eyes as wand'ring as my thought,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaabaX cdcdefeX gdgXXXXb aaaXdhdX afafXhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 111001001 11110111 01110101 11010101 011001111 11111101 01011111 11110010 11010101 11010011 11101101 11010101 11100111 11111111 01011111 11111111 11011101 11011110 11110001 11111101 11011101 11011110 11111100 11011111 11111011 11010101 11110011 11011101 110100101 110011101 10101101 0101110 11011101 11000111 01010101 11110111 111100110 11010001 10010100 11010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, or, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
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