This is an analysis of the poem At The Gate that begins with:
Naked I came into the world of pleasure,
And naked come I to this house of pain.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dXdXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10110001010 1101100101 11011111110 1111011101 0111111011 1101111011 1101111101 1011011111 0111111101 11010101000 11010110111 1111111100 0001111101 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i, of are repeated.
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