This is an analysis of the poem In The Tree House At Night that begins with:

And now the green household is dark.
The half-moon completely is shining ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcdef Xaghbea fefiXbg jhkeeig kfdheba kbbgebh XcbXXaj hehkXde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011101 011010010 101101001 00101101 011011110 111001011 010111011 110111110 11011010 11101001 011111110 111110010 1101111 010010110 01110011 11011111 101111011 1011010010 01101111 1111010010 111111101 01011000001 110010010 111011111 110010110 111101101 1001110010 10011111 111011111 11011111 010011010 10010111 10111011 110010110 0011010110 11111011 01001101 11011101 011111 01101011 101111101 11001101 0100111 0101010 11101001 01101111 01100111 101110010 11111001 1110011010 11101101 01111011 11101101 01010101 1001110 11101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word each is repeated.

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