This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Splendour that begins with:
‘Tis Evanoe's,
A house not made with hands,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXb cad edaf fdcb XcedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,3,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100 011101 1111010101 01010101100 1111110100 1111110001 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 01110010101 1101010001 101110011 1111011101 0101110001 0101110101 1011010101 1111011100 0111010 10111111000 1111010001 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gold is repeated).
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