This is an analysis of the poem Houses that begins with:
People who are afraid of themselves
Multiply themselves into families...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab XcXc aaaa aaaa baXX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101001 1010100100 110101 1101101 10111011 00101010 1101110 011111110 101111110 1011110011 10110110 110110110 101111010 10110110 1011110 11011110 1011010110 101010010 1110101 011110010 01011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; themselves is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word people at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word echoes at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Houses;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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