This is an analysis of the poem The Ice House that begins with:
The house was really a cellar deep beneath the tower of the old
Belmont Brewery. My father's big shoulders heaved open the door...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01110010101010001 1110011011011001 0011100101100011 1110111110111 001011111110110110 11110110011010101 001101111111010 101010101100101100 01101101011111 011011110110111 101001110001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 717
- Average number of words per stanza: 131
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 64 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, our are repeated.
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