This is an analysis of the poem The House On The Hill that begins with:
They are all gone away,
The house is shut and still,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbA abA abA abA abAXabAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 010111 1010101 110111 011111 111101 101101 010011 1010101 100111 010101 111101 111101 100101 1010101 1010101 001101 111101 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 83
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of The House On The Hill;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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