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

I LOVE him, I love him, ran the patter of her lips
And she formed his name on her tongue and sang...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcbXdaXbXXeabefddfddcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111010001 1110110111 1111111111 1111110111 111000111111 010100011111 11111101110 0011111101 111101001100 01010011001000 1010111011 0111100100101 1110101011001 111011111100 1101100110 01010111111 101100110010 111111011111 101110011110110 00111101010 111111111110 1110010111010 01100100111 10101001011 01100001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; him, and, she, doors, love, of, some, he, or, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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