This is an analysis of the poem Improvisations: Light And Snow: 13 that begins with:
My heart is an old house, and in that forlorn old house,
In the very centre, dark and forgotten,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXabcXXdebeaXfcdgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010111 00101011010 00111101010 110 1010111 1011001101 11001101 110100101010 11000011 010010100110 1011111 11111111 1011111 111111000100100 1111000001 111011010 10011 0101001 11 11110111010 001101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 769
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; your is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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