This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Earth that begins with:

O ye disconsolate and heavy-souled,
That evening cometh when ye too shall learn... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabb aabca ddac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11100011010 1101011111 0101111101 01010010101 1111000111 1001111101 1111011111 0111110101 1101110101 1110111101 1101111111 1101111111 0101011101 01110100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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