This is an analysis of the poem At The Door that begins with:

He wiped his shoes before his door,
But ere he entered he did more;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Aabbccdd eeffggdd hhbbiicX Aajjbbgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11110101 11010101 011010001 11110101 11110101 111011011 11011101 10011101 01011101 01011111 01011111 11010111 00101100 10001101 11010101 10110001 11010101 10111101 01011101 01011011 01010101 10110101 00011001 11010101 11010101 11010101 01110001 01000101 01000111 01010101 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; he, his, to, with are repeated.

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

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  • summary of At The Door;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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