This is an analysis of the poem If I Had Not Moved To Knock that begins with:
If I had not moved to knock,
On the door of opportunity......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcA AbXdcA dXcbdaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111101 101010100 111110101 1010011010101 0111101 0111101 11010101010100 011101 1001101 010101101 0111101 1100111 1101111010 11011110101 001010100 11001011 10111101 1111110100 11010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
The author used the same word if at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines knock is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word knock at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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