This is an analysis of the poem Knock On The Door that begins with:
Knock on the door, and you shall have an answer!
Open the heavy walls to set me free,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011111110 1001010111 110101100011 11011011111 11001101110 1011011111 010111101111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 370
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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