This is an analysis of the poem The Country House that begins with:
Did the door move, or was it always ajar?
The gladioli on the table are pale mauve.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXbX XaXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00111101101 01001010111 111111 111101010 011011 101001110111 111110101 11111 1101 101 001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 11
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
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- summary of The Country House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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