This is an analysis of the poem The Door And The Window that begins with:

My love, you are timely come, let me lie by your heart.
For waking in the dark this morning, I woke to that mystery,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXb cbXXX cXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111101111111 1100010101101100 11111011111010 100101111101 101010011010010010 0111110101 111111101010 001010011101 0110111011010 1010110101011 0111011111011 1100111011010 000111100110 010110101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • 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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