This is an analysis of the poem That Key In My Door For You Will Never Fit that begins with:

Someone gave you a key,
And you believe it fits this lock? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbdba cefXe XgXggXfXaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 11010101 11011 111111 110111 111011 1010101 10111101010 1 111111011001 100100110100 111011 110101 110 11110 11110 1001101001 01100110100 1001000100 1101001011 1111010 11 0011101101 1101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, them are repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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