This is an analysis of the poem The New Year's Caller that begins with:
COME, open your door, there's a friend waiting near
Who is eager to wish you a Happy New Year;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXX aaccaX ddXXaa aaeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011101101 101001101011 11101111001 11100101101 11111011111 11001011010 11001101101 11101011101 11101111101 11011011111 11001001001 11011101011 11011101001 11101001011 11111001001 11111011001 11011101101 01101011101 11011101101 101001011011 11111011111 01011011110 11101111101 11101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; year, and, may, you, to, your, him, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word may is repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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