This is an analysis of the poem What Can Anyone Say To Unlock The Gates that begins with:
What can anyone say,
To someone seeking friends to play with......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXbcbdd AXaebd deXccdcc AXabeXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 011101010 0011100 10100 100101 111111 1101110011 10010010001 111001 1001001111 1101001 011001010 1101011 100101100100 11100100101 0111101 0101000110 11010101 010110001101 110101000 000101 1110100100110001 111001 010001001 0111010101 11 10101010 1111010100 011011001010 11010010101001101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; that, to are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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