This is an analysis of the poem Left the House that begins with:
Left the house shattered, it hurt so bad,
so many years as a man, compromise,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcd Xcba Xefg Xbhg X Xbbc gdii beba X hXbb jfbh ecae bjXfXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101100111 1100101101 010100101010010 11101000010001 11101010 0011011001000 010010111 1010111111 1001000100 10100001010 01001011101 1010001001010 11101101001 01011110 001001110010010 010110 1 110101011 11000100110 1011011 1111 11101010111010 101001110101 1110111011 01001110101 01001011 1011010101000100100 11111101000100 01011101001 1 11010110110 0011100110 111011111110 01101101101 101111010111 1101011111010 100101110101101 1110101010 1011110111 1001010011010 1100100010001 100010101101 1101101 11101111 010110111111 1010111 101110100 01001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, of, shattered, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word he is repeated.
The author used the same words he, shattered at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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