This is an analysis of the poem The Icehouse In Summer that begins with:
A door sunk in a hillside, with a bolt
thick as the boy’s arm, and behind that door ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacX cXdecXXfXefXe cdaggebeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,13,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0110011001 1101110111 0101100111 1101010111 0101010001 0101011101 0101100101 1111110101 0111011101 10010100001 1011110101 0011010101 11010101010 0101011000 0011011111 011101001001 01110001110 10010101010 1001011101 0101010101 10111010111 11011011101 00111110101 11110011101 1001011101 0101100101 1010100110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 405
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Icehouse In Summer;
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