This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Cards that begins with:
O the chatter, chatter, chatter,
Of the things that do not matter....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAaAAA aabbbbccdd aA bbAA eebbeeffbbaabXbbgg aaaaaaA bbffbbccbbbb ffbbggbbeeaaaaXaabbAaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,2,4,18,7,12,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101010 00111110 10101110 10111010 11101010 11101010 111010110 10111010 00101010 11101010 10111010 11101010 11111010 10101010 0010111 1010101 10101010 00111110 10101010 10101010 11101010 11101010 101110010 10111010 11101010 10101010 10111110 11101010 10101010 10100010 111010010 10101110 11101010 111111100 00101010 10101100 11111010 10001110 11111110 11101110 10101010 00111010 00111110 10101110 01101010 11101110 11101010 11101010 00101110 10101010 11101110 10111110 10101010 10111010 11101110 10111010 01101010 10111010 10111010 11110110 11101010 11100110 11111010 10100110 10101010 10101110 10011010 10111010 10101110 10101110 10111010 11101010 11111010 10101010 10111110 10101010 10101010 10111010 11101010 11101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 295
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 81
- 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; chatter, that, clatter, and, her, she, in, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words all, of, down are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines scatter, her, sighing are repeated).
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- summary of The House Of Cards;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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