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

Clean winds sweep over it,
Blue sky to cover it, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXbaa CCcdeeeebdaaff XXaaggb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,14,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 110100 010101 111101 100010 10010 110100 101101 11110 11110 1101 1101 111101 0101 0101 1101 1101 1111 111100 1100101 111110 111100 111101 1111 11110 10110 10110 11010 110101 011101 001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, love are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, i, another, however, each, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, is, so are repeated).

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

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