This is an analysis of the poem From The Top Of The Stairs that begins with:
Of course
those who are standing at the top of the stairs ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX dbeBfX dabbgh babbdib ibjXbbaea cbhklb jBkael hkcafbflm acciddkXgmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,6,7,9,6,6,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 11110101001 1 11101 010100 1001 100001010 1101001 010110 00101011101 1110 1110111 110110 101001 11100110110 11 1101 1111 101 11110 00100010 10010 01001011010 101101 101101 110011 01011010101 01101 111101 11101011 110 1100 1101001 0101 111100111 1101101101 111 1101000101110 0111 1101001 11 1001 1111101100110 11 111 101 101011001 1100101011 001011110 111010101 11010 11101 1 11101 1111 1111 110 0100101 1101 101 0011 01010101 110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, what, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, we are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines true is repeated).
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