This is an analysis of the poem One Step Followed By Another that begins with:
No door stoop waiting for a passerby to wave...
Did one sit, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdXXabXddcXXdca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101010001 011 010001010 11010001001 0110101 1011010 01010111001 1001101101 1101101111001 1100101 101 1010010 10 11101010 111010101 1111101 10010101011 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
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- summary of One Step Followed By Another;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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