This is an analysis of the poem "Houses"&Mdash;So The Wise Men Tell Me that begins with:
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"Houses"—so the Wise Men tell me—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 100000011110 100010101 10101010 1010101 100100110100 1111101 1010101100 1110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mansions is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word mansions is repeated.
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