This is an analysis of the poem Souvenir that begins with:

A vanished house that for an hour I knew
By some forgotten chance when I was young... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdccXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01011111011 1101011111 11010010001 0101010101 0101110101 1100100111 0100110101 0111000111 1101101100 0111010011 1101011100 1111010101 1101110101 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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