This is an analysis of the poem Again&Mdash;His Voice Is At The Door that begins with:

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Again—his voice is at the door—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXXX XXXX XaXa XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1000101010 1101100 1111010 111100010 1101000110 1101000 11011000100 110101 110101010 100000010 111101100 10100001 11010000010 0101010 10000001 100000 010100010 110011100100 01000010 1010001010 100011000 10000101100000 111101 100001100100000 1101001 110001110000 01000110 1111010000 1111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, alone are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

    The author used the same words i, we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alone is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase alone connects the lines.

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