This is an analysis of the poem The Furnace Door that begins with:
My father is a peaceful man;
He tries in every way he can...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbaacbbbdebbee ccXaffgahhbeiibe ccaeddgXjjjieeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,16,16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101 110100111 01010100 110101 11110101 10010001 110100110 010001 11110110 11110111 11111001 111101 11010101 10010101 11010101 110101 11000101 01111101 11010101 110001 11100101 11111111 111101010 010010 11110101 01011111 01010001 110101 01010101 11110111 11010101 110101 01001111 11011101 010101011 111101 11010111 11111111 11110100 110101 11011101 111001111 11010001 110101 11110101 11010101 11010111 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, him, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word door at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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