This is an analysis of the poem Closer To The Back Door that begins with:
One step closer to the back door.
Collected trash put into a garbage bag....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXABCDEAfAee AaAeBCDEAbaX AefX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100011 01011000101 11100011 11111 11111 1111101 110110001 11100011 10011000110 11100011 10001101 01110 11100011 01001110101 11100011 010110101 11111 11111 1111101 110110001 11100011 11010110101 101 010111 11100011 11101010101 11 10001101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, packed, stacked, too, racks are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word packed is repeated.
The author used the same word one at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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