This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Vi: This Door You Might Not Open that begins with:
This door you might not open, and you did;
So enter now, and see for what slight thing ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcXeeeedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 0111110110 1101111111 1101101101 1101110100 0111110101 1111110001 1101111101 11011001100 1001101111 1011110111 1101011111 1001100101 1111010111 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, no are repeated.
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