This is an analysis of the poem Our House that begins with:
IT should be yours, if I could build
The quaint old dwelling I desire, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc ddbeXef ffdddggd ddXhahh aaiiddff jj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,8,7,8,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01010111 011101010 01110101 110111010 110010101 11010100 010101010 010011010 11011100 11001101 11011100 11001111 11110100 00111100 10010101 10011111 011101001 110111001 11010111 11010101 11000100 11001101 11011101 01110110 11010111 01010101 01011101 11111111 01100111 10010101 11001111 11110101 001001101 11011100 11010001 11110100 11110111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Our House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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