This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Clay that begins with:

THERE was a house, a house of clay,
Wherein the inmate sat all day,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcdcdabeebfbfbXbaabdgdgabaabchchXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 01011111 1011 11100101 111111 10110101 11111101 1000101101 1101 11111100 01111111 1111 10010111 111111 10010101 110101101 1110111010 1101 110011101 10101101 1111 111010011 111111 01010001 01010111 11010101 0101 11011101 00010111 1111 11011101 111111 11011101 110100111 11011100 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 211
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; he, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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  • summary of The House Of Clay;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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