This is an analysis of the poem Song that begins with:
I came to the door of the House of Love
And knocked as the starry night went by;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXBX abab cdcd aXBX cccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100101 111010111 111111010111 10010 1111001001 101001101001 1001100101 111011 110100111 0110100111 0010111111 1110101 111100101 111101100 111111010111 101110 101110101 10111001001 1011110101 00101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Song;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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