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(i) The speaker of the poem is a small kid. 

(ii) He/She was both curious and afraid. The creaking noise of hinges at night and the feeling of someone staring at him/her make the child feel afraid. While the thought that the shed was his/her brother's den makes him/her curious. 

(iii) She/he is planning to go inside the shed soon. 

(iv) “But not just yet...” suggests the hesitation of the poet about going inside that shed. Though he/she is confident that there are no ghosts inside but still he/she hesitates to step inside and leaves the matter to be handled in near future, gathering up more courage.

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She/He plans to go inside the shed after some day soon.

A. The speaker

In the first three stanzas the speaker seems to be scared of the shed. He thinks about the strange voices that come from the shed, somebody mysteriously staring at him, he believed in the ghost stories and so on. However, in the final stanza of the poem, there seems to be a major change in the speaker’s attitude. He has understood that all these ghost stories were a lie told to him. And, therefore, his resolve to go inside the shed becomes further firm.

From our reading of the poem, it becomes amply clear that the speaker is fully determined to go inside the shed. Even when his brother threatens him, he does not give up the idea of going inside to find for himself the truth. His desire to visit only gets postponed and delayed.

The first time when the speaker describes the shed, the speaker talks about a spider web hanging across the door of the shed. However, the next time when the speaker describes the shed, the speaker shares that t it had been a long time since the spider S and the web were not to be seen. Perhaps, the door of the shed had been opened by the speaker’s brother, thereby displacing the spider’s web that covered the door.

The poet’s brother told the poet that there was a ghost in the shed hiding under the rotten floorboards. If the poet dared to set foot inside the shed, ghost would jump out and chop off his head.

The broken glass panes of the dusty window suggests lack of maintenance. It was quite natural that no one bothered to replace the cracked panes of an unused structure.