This is an analysis of the poem Next Door that begins with:
Whenever I’m moving my furniture in
Or shifting my furniture out—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddbebeddddd bfbfgdgd dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01011011000 11011001 101011011011 01101001 110101101 101101001 1101111101 101001011 01001011 001111001011 0010110101 11011101101 101101011 011001111101 11101111 111011101011 101001011 001001011 11011101101 111111111 11010101001 01111001 11101101101 111111011 00101101001 111101111 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 359
- Average number of words per stanza: 75
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; there, t, isn, or, be, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word be is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines door is 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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