This is an analysis of the poem Outside The House that begins with:
Walking yesterday in an outlying neighbourhood,
I went by the house...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX XbccXd dabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 1010101110100 11101 11010111101 1100010010 110110 1101 1111011 1101 11100110 10100110010101 11101011 111110101 11001101 11101010 01001011011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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