This is an analysis of the poem The Ogre Slam-The-Door that begins with:

There is a certain castle that is beautiful and fair,
And plants, and birds, and pretty things, fill every room and hall,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaa XcXcaa dcdcaa bebeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101010011 111111011100111 101100101111101 01010101110101 11110101111011 01000101010101 101010101011111 11010101110111 11111101010111 111110100010101 111010100010001 01010101110101 11111101111101 11010101110011 11010100110111 110010001110101 101111111100101 110100101010101 101000101011101 1010001011101110 01010101010111 111110111100010 01011101110101 01101100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 354
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • 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; and, to, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, though are 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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