This is an analysis of the poem Stop Your Peeping Through Those Keyholes that begins with:
Stop that peeping through those keyholes.
Open the windows and doors you've closed....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXcbdc Abbdb effea A adf GGA EAbEAXec ABHAB GGb EABHABBB EABHABBBXHABHABHABbA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,5,5,1,3,3,8,5,3,8,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 100101111 11010001 01011 0111 10 1111001 11101111 1111110001 011010 0101011 1010101001 1011 1101 0111 0101011 011111 11101111 110110 0010100 0101101 1110101 1110101 11101111 11 11111 101101111 11 11111 11010001100 1111001 1101 11101111 110101001 11 101111 11010110101 1110101 1110101 111001111 11 101111 110101001 11 101111 11010110101 1010110101 110101111 11 101111 110101001 11 101111 11010110101 1010110101 110101111 11 101111 110101111 11 101111 110101111 11 101111 110101111 1101111 11101111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; stop, to, peeping, that, live, life are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, stop are repeated.
The author used the same word stop 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 peek, told, old are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word old at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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