This is an analysis of the poem How To Undo And Remove A Lock that begins with:

As I remember love to get,
When then wishing it to possess....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ABAcXadc ABAaaXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11100001 001010011 11111110 001110110 1110001000 0101 0110110001101 11010101 11100001 001010011 00100010101001 1011111001 1110111 111011111 10100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • history of its creation;
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