This is an analysis of the poem The Wrong House that begins with:
I went into a house, and it wasn't a house,
It has big steps and a great big hall;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcCCB AbdDDB AbeEEB abfXfb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001101001 011110111 10101010 010 010 00010111 110001101001 0101101111 10101011 011 011 00010111 110001101001 111000111 10101010 010 010 00010111 1100011110101 11100110101 11111000 111 10 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; it, house, may, tree, i, nobody are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, i are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines garden, tree, blackbird are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word all at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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