This is an analysis of the poem The Cupboard that begins with:
It's a board carved wooden cupboard;
the ancient dark-coloured oak ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabcbcbcXXacX cddb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111010 0101101 11011101 11101010010 111001011 010010101011 10101000100111 1010010 101011011010 10010010010 111110 1101111 101110 111000101 1100111110010 111010 111111001 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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