This is an analysis of the poem The Closed Door that begins with:
SHUT it out of the heart — this grief,
O Love, with the years grown old and hoary!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbccdcdXedeefeffcfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 1100011110 11011101 11111010010 0100101010 110100100 0111101110 101101001 10011111 100111010 01111111 1100101010 1111111010 11101101 0001111010 110111011 00011101 0101111010 100100101 0101111010 10111101110 10010100 0001110110 11011100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 961
- Average number of words per stanza: 189
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, over are repeated.
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- summary of The Closed Door;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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