This is an analysis of the poem Our House that begins with:

WE play at our house and have all sorts of fun,
An' there's always a game when supper is done;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ccddcc eebbff ggccgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11111111101 11110111001 111111101101 111001011001 11111101001 11111111011 11111111111 11101101001 11111111111 111101101001 1111101001 11111111011 1001001111 01001100101 111001101101 101111101101 11101111011 11011011101 11011011011 11111001011 111111111011 11011011101 11101001011 11011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', our, house, we, i, to are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word right at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Our House;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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