This is an analysis of the poem Shut Not Your Doors, &C. that begins with:
SHUT not your doors to me, proud libraries,
For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXbaXcXXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111011110 1111101111111 10111 100100101001111 01011100100101 01101110011110101 111011000101001 111110011010010 0100 01001001010010010 0101 00101101001001001 0111 01001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 748
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long 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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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