This is an analysis of the poem There's Been A Death In The Opposite House that begins with:
There's been a death in the opposite house
As lately as to-day.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX cbdX cbcb efXf edadXeefe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001001 110101 1101011 110110 01010011 010101 01010101 010100 11010101 010101 11000111 110101 01001100 100100 11110101 110101 110100101 000101 01010001 1001101 01010101 010101 01010001 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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