This is an analysis of the poem Should Somebody One Day that begins with:

Should somebody one day knock at your door
Announcing he's an emissary of mine,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXb XXccXca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110111111 01011101001 1001111001 10111101100 1010011001 111100010110 10011011100 1111010001 0101101101 1101011101010110 0110011101 1001111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, and are repeated.

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