This is an analysis of the poem Making The House A Home that begins with:

Here's our story, page by page,
Happy youth and middle-age,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 1011101 1111111 1111111 1001101 1110101 1011111 1110101 1011111 0110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 10
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • summary of Making The House A Home;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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