This is an analysis of the poem December 23, 1879 that begins with:
I.
A thousand houses of poesy stand around me everywhere;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbdbb X eeee X XXdXd X aaaX a fffgX a eeaecX X ggXgXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,4,1,5,1,4,1,5,1,6,1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 010100101011101 1101111111101010 1 10111111111110 101 11110010101101001 1 10111101111010000 101101010111110010 10111101101001110 101111111001100001 1 1011111011000100 10100 01110110110101010 101111110110100110 01101001111111010 1 1101011011111011 111110100101001011 10101011111011101 11111010110010110 1 1101111010011101 010011101011111 101000101101001111 1010111010011 01001 1 1110101010101011 11100101001011011 10110111001110101 1 10111110111010100 1 1 11101111101111 111010110111110111 10000101101111010 1 101010010011000010 1
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 43
- 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; they, cannot, i, some, my, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word cannot is repeated.
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- summary of December 23, 1879;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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