This is an analysis of the poem At The Gate that begins with:
Swing open wide, O Gate,
That I may enter in... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Ababb Xb cdcX XXd efe Xggf bd XbAad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,4,3,3,4,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 111100 111101 111101 011101 1 110111 111001 110101 110001 111101 1 011110 010101 100101 011100 101100 1 1001001 110101 000101 011101 110101 1 111100 110111 100111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 77
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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.
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