This is an analysis of the poem The Door (I) that begins with:
for Robert Duncan
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcd dedd bddd fgdh Xaaa gede ghid Xgjk jaih diij jkld akai jcXj aXag aeka kihX iieg bfgb aala aiifXbbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 00110001 1110011 010110100 1010110001 111011101 1101101 010110101 1101 11101 110111001 1111011 0111111 1011101 1010110 001100001 01010110 1101011 110111010 11010 00010111 110100010 111101101 11011 010000100 10100010 001001010 010010101010 010001 010100101 0010011010 110010011 101011 1111 110101111 000100100010 000100111010 10110001 01111001 111100 1011001110001 11101 11101110 10101000 10001 10001111 10111110 1011 1101101 101 101110 101001111 1101011001001 11111 10011011110 01011110011 11101100 0100110010 100111 01001010010 011110110 10010110 111110100 111010010 00100111 1010000100 10001001 0010011 101110010 101011 1100101 10110110 11011101 111101 1010111101 11101000 00111101 1010010 1000010101 1101 01010100 0111101 110110110101 100110101 11010
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, i, of, one, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, the, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, alone are repeated).
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- summary of The Door (I);
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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