This is an analysis of the poem On Naming A House that begins with:
WHEN I a householder became
I had to give my house a name....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XXXXXX aabccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011001 11011101 11110101 11001101 110101 111111110 1100011110 111110 11111101 11011101 110101 01001111 11110101 011111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; i, or, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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