This is an analysis of the poem One Need Not Be A Chamber To Be Haunted, that begins with:
One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdcd XXeb addd efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100100010 111001 011100010 01001 110001110 0101 110100010 1101 110111010 0110 110111010 0101 01010101 1101 010101010 0101 010100010 1101 10000010010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
The author used the same word far at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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