This is an analysis of the poem From House To House that begins with:
The first was like a dream through summer heat,
The second like a tedious numbing swoon,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc ebeb fdfg bhbh eiei dada jbjb jhjh caca Xdkd kgkg djdj kaka ajaj gjgj elel aeaf ajaX mhmh nbnb odod bjbX elel akak pcpX nkXX bXbX jfjf dbdb lglg jeje bebe qaqa lblb pXpX gfXf caca nXna jXjX ckck fdfd ahah eeee jaja aoao jdjd aaaa brbr bebe aXaj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111011101 01010100101 1011010101 010101 11111101110 0101010111 11010101001 111001 0111011011 0101010101 1101010001 100101 1101010101 100110100101 1101011101 0100010 1101110101 1001111101 0100110101 111111 1101010111 01011001001 1101010011 011101 10011100101 11010111011 1101010001 111011 1111011101 0101011111 1101011101 111101 1111010111 1101011111 1101010101 110101 1101010111 0111010101 11010100101 110001 1001010100 01001110101 1101110101 010111 1111110101 010010111010 11101000101 0101010 1011010111 10110111001 1011110101 0100101 1111010101 1101110001 11001010101 110111 1111011111 1100011111 1111011111 111101 010111110110 1111010111 11111111010 111111 1101110101 1111010111 11010111010 11001 1111110101 0101111101 1111111101 110101 101101011011 1111010001 1111110100 100101 1101111101 1111110101 1101010111 101101 1111110101 1101011101 1111011111 110111 10110101001 11110110111 1111111111 111111 11110110101 11111111001 1101011101 100101 1001110101 1111010101 1111010111 110101 1111011101 1111010111 110111101111 1101011 0111111101 0101111101 1110010101 1111100 1110111101 01110010101 1111011101 110101 111111111 11110101100 1101111101 1010010 1111010101 01001000111 01110101001 110101 1101000101 11110111010 0100011111 1101010 01011101001 01010111010 0101110101 10011110 1101010101 11110111010 110001101001 1101010 110010110101 11001101001 01011101001 010101 1111101101 1110111001 1101000100101 111111 1111010101 01010111110 0111110111 1101010 1111110101 1111010110 1101100101 100110 1101111100 1001010100 1101011101 011101 1111110101 1111010100 1101110101 110101 0111110111 1011111101 1101110111 010011 1111110001 01001101010 1101010101 100111 11110011101 1111111101 1101011101 011111 1011011101 11000101001 0111010101 111101 1101011001 10010110111 1111111011 111011 1011111111 1110110101 1111001101 110101 1111111101 11111101001 1111111111 110101 1111110111 11111010101 1111011100 111111 101101111 1111100101 1001010001 101111 1101110111 1001110101 1101011101 1101001 1111110101 1111110101 0101011101 0101101 110100011 1101010101 1101110101 110111 1111111011 01110101110 1101111101 111101 1101010111 1111011111 0110110101 100101 1111111110 0101011101 11011010100 110100 1101010101 11011101101 0101100110 111111 1011010111 10011100100 1101111101 110111 1101111101 1101101111 0101111101 111101 11011101001 0101010001 10111100101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 57
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 228
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, sometimes, i, no, love, day, night, like, sweet, had, new, rose, one, who, in, for, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i, 'to, no, one, each, they, my are repeated.
The author used the same words my, therefore, although 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 ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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