This is an analysis of the poem Doors, Doors, Doors that begins with:

1. Old Man
Old man, it's four flights up and for what?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcXc dXdX eaeaff gcgc ebeb bfhfii h aa XX XX jj jX cc ff bb cc hh cc aa Xb aa f fXb fhb hcch aak aakXjdjd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,6,4,4,6,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,3,3,4,3,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111 110111111 1101010111 10111110110 11001110101 01011110011 01001101010 10101011111 10001001010100 101001001101 1111111000101 111110100011 1101010101101 11101101101 010111011101 10111101110 11111010011 11101001110110 11001011101 0101100010111 1111110101 00101011011 11100110001 010110100011 0010110101101 11011001101011 110101111101 1011100111101 01110111111001 110 01101111111 1111001011011 110010111101 11010111110 11011100110 010110100111 111011011 11110101011 1110100110101 101001010100 110011101111 1011110111011 111010011101 111111101 11110100111 1111001111 111110110111 01101111111 11010010111 1101010001 1111011110 01010111010 01010111101 001101110101 0110011101110 1111001111 111111111 111110111011 111 11110111010 1101011111 1110101011101 01010110110 11111101111 110101001111 1111011100101 111111111111 111101010111111 11110111100101 1010100101 000101010111 111101011011 1010101111101 0110111111110 101111011011 1001110111011 0110100111011 10101011110101 1011111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, in, they, to, and, as, i, he, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, tell are 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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