This is an analysis of the poem Open The Door To Me, Oh that begins with:
OH, open the door, some pity to shew,
Oh, open the door to me, oh,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaA XaXa XaXa baba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111001 11001011 1110111011 11001011 100101111 11011111 0111001111 01011111 01101001011 11010011 11111111 11100111 111001111001 110111011 10110011111101 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; oh, door, to, open are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, she are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word oh at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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