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

Suggested by a drawing of Thomas Moran, the American painter
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbdeeffcbbd gghhijjkkhhhll kklLhhlllhhlLl hffXfjjffmmbbhhhhbbggbbll mmnXhhbcnndadeenoeojjjj joXjoXbbhhfpn blljjcjffncXXooo dXdhXcchicijj bbjjjjXniioo hhbbbbhhfpjjeeiiXjfjfqqjddbbbb bbbjjrrjj ffjjjhhmm hbhbXfofffnnjjefhhggjifjnh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,14,14,25,23,13,16,13,12,30,9,9,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 0101010010010010010 0100101 0110101 11101 1010011 101111 110111 01010111 10010101 1010111 1011 00101 1010001 1110001 010101011 1100101 111110101 1010101001 111111 0100100101 110011101 010010101 110011001 0111001001 0010100111 10111 010110111 1111 111100101 11001011010 01101010 110110001 11011001 101010110 1001010 10110 101001 01001 101101010 01101010 11011010 1100111001 10010101 0100100111 11100101 100100101 000101011 10101001011 1010100101 10111010011 0110100111 110101111 11101001 1010010001 110100111 100101001 11111111 100101101 101001001 01001011011 10101000101 1011110111 110011111 101110101 11111110010 111011010 111111111 0100111011 110101101 010110101 10100111 011110101 0 1 0101 1001100101 1101101101 00010100 01110001001 001111001 101111101 1100101101 011100101 110111 1001011001 0011101111 1110011001 110110101 010100101 11101111101 110100101 010110110 100100111 100100101 100101011 100110111 011100101 11001001001 011010101 0111101001 10110100100 100100101 0 1001001010 0011010011010 101010001 1110101 0100101001 111100101 100100101 1010100101 110100101 1010101 010100100 010100100 11010001 1010101 1100110101 11111111 100100101 111111 11111001 10010111 11010101 111001001 100101101 11111001 1111001 101001011 100111011 10111100001 1101101 101011 11101011011 1101100111 11001011010 11100101001 11010 010110 1010101111 110101111 1111100101 0100100101 101111101 100110101 11101101 1011111111 11110111 10111001 10011001 101100101 110111010 10010100 1110101101 100100101 101001001 10100111 110111111 100101 1111010 10110101 11111001 1001001001 110100101 10110101 110010101 110100101 010111001 01111001 10110101 10100101 00100111001 0010110101 1111010101 1111110111 1110010101 11011101 0110101101 100101101 011010101 1111001001 010101011 11111001011 110111001 111111101 101101101 0100100111 100101101 1101100101 0011101 110101 1110011111 110111 111011111 1011001 111010 111 1111100 101 110011101 11011111 101110101 1011100100 101 1010101 00 1 0111 01010101 11010101 1100101 1010111 1 1 10011 1101011001 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, it, that, or, looks, true, to, of, my, why, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, or, true, beyond, rend are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines coming is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of The Haunted House;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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