This is an analysis of the poem The House that begins with:
In dreams
the same bad dream goes on. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdbdaedfcggahicjkaaXlfXhhbfjemnjaahejjXigojpkmhmXbXdbbo dpdafXXXcooplmjbbmoanlfgdacaahbdkcbeafXbeaome k XkmeXbaheh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,45,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 011111 11010101 011001 0101011 01101 011000101110 1111110 1111101011 11101 11101 11101 0101111 110011111 01010101001 0111110001 0101 1100 110100101 10010110010 010101010 111010 1110 1101 1011001 10100101101 00100101 010111011 111010001 10 10110 011011 01101 1101010 00101010 110111110010 10001101011 01011101 10 010110 1011 10111 0100101111 001010101 1001010110 010111 01 1110101 1101100 1010101001001 110101111 11100101 1101011 01 101101010 0 0101 1101001001011 11011011 101001 010101101 1011111 100 0100 0111010 11101011 010101 010101 1000111101 010100 01011101 011010 01110001 10010100101 10001010101 110011101 100100110101 1101 0101110110 1111111 1010101111 11001011 10101010 10101001011 1010101 101011000011 11101 101011101 101011111 011110101 10111 110101 1010100011 01011100 11011 0101110 011011 0100100111 011011010110 010111011101 110111101101 01011110101 101011101 1101 1111 111111 111011 10110 101011001 11100111 11010010 11011101010110 10010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 901
- Average number of words per stanza: 159
- Amount of lines: 113
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; forty, nineteen, her, his, one, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nineteen, she, has, past, up are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pull, room are repeated).
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- summary of The House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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