This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Tears that begins with:
When in the old years I had dreams of thee
Thy dark walls stood in a most barren place;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXa bbacd eced
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001011101 1111001101 1101101111 10011101000 1111011101 1111011001 1110100011 0111111111 0111111101 0111110101 0101110111 1101010111 1011101101 0100110100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 200
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; nor is repeated.
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- summary of The House Of Tears;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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