This is an analysis of the poem The House that begins with:
They are building a house
half a block down...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbddXdXefaXgeXhfaddijhgkXbbkaddcecgdddfhdffifdgefajXkjcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 58,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001 1011 11111 0011 100001 0101001 1111 11111 1111 11101 11010011 1101001 10111001 0100010 101001 111 1 0011 11010 111101 011 1110110110 111111 1010011 101111110 0111 11011110100 1101011 1001001 001 1001101 0110 1011011110 101 011011110 101 01101110 11011 111 100101011 011001001 101101 1011101 0101101111 01111111 1110110 1111001 1011110101 1011010 1001 111011 111110101 10111111 01111000 1111011 1101 10111 101011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1528
- Average number of words per stanza: 304
- Amount of lines: 58
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; thack, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of The House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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