This is an analysis of the poem The Lost Key that begins with:
I Closed a chamber in my heart,
And locked the door for aye; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX bcbc aaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010011 110111 11110101 110101 11101111 0111011 011101111 1101010 110101011 1100111 110101111 110101 11011101 011111 11010111 011101 11010111 111111 11010101 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Lost Key;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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