This is an analysis of the poem The Wrong Way Home that begins with:
All night a door floated down the river.
It tried to remember little incidents of pleasure... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbXcbbXXXdXXdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101010 01001010100010 00101101010 101010110 11001101 101011101 1110111 101101010 0101011100 1111111010 01111011001 011010110 101011 110111011 11111101 01010111 1010111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 129
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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