This is an analysis of the poem Some Lines Scrawled on the Door of Vagabond's House that begins with:
West of the sunset stands my house;
There..and east of the dawn;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaccc dcdcXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011111 101001 10010111 100111 10110111 00100101 10101101 1110100 100101101 100101 10011101 0100111 11110101 100101 111100101 0100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my, to, of are repeated.
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