This is an analysis of the poem To A Transatlantic Mirror that begins with:
When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door. . .
-Suzuki...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab ccdXeefcghcfc iaajXXk liXejlmdmknXbd mfjh lddgglli XinjXbeohdnlnno XejjfinddXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,13,7,14,4,8,15,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100111010101 010 1001 010101 00101 010100101110 01001010 1000010 1111 010101 001010 0111010001 010001 10111 01 1010 1010101 1101110001 101011011 11 001101001100 0111 1011 11110 010100 010010 1111 001101 1110 01011 0110101 01111 1110 01100 1100 0110001 01001 11011 11101001 111 101001 1011 011 01101010 1010 1101001 1111 01010001 1100 01010 110101 101 1111 11000010 1001110 10000101 1111 111 001010 11111 01 11010 00101 1101 1100010 110 01010 0111 01 11 1011 0101 110100 10001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; self, its, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines self, door are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase self connects the lines.
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- summary of To A Transatlantic Mirror;
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