This is an analysis of the poem At Noey's House that begins with:

At Noey's house--when they arrived with him--
How snug seemed everything, and neat and trim:... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXddeeffggddhheecciibbjjXhddkX ccddkk kkiillXXkXbX gggX ddggmmcXXckkbbbbbbjjbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,6,12,4,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111110101 1111011111 0101011101 0101010101 1111110101 0101011111 0101110110 0111011000 1001010101 0111010101 0111010111 1111111101 0100010101 1111011101 1011110011 1101111101 0101010111 0101011101 1101010101 0111011101 01010010001 0101110001 010101101 1011011111 0101010101 0001000111 1101010011 1100010111 0101011101 0101111101 0101101101 111111111 1101110111 1111110111 01111100111 1101110100 0101010101 111010001 01101110111 1011000111 0101010101 11011100101 1100110101 010111101 11010101001 1111010001 1101100100 1101011101 1001010111 1101011100 0101011101 1111001100 1111110011 10111011111 111011111 1101111101 01110111110 1100111110 0101011111 1101110101 1011010101 1101110101 1101111111 0111011101 111101111 0101010 101 1101000111 1001110101 0101010101 1101010111 1100011111 0101010100 1101010111 011100001 1101000101 11011010111 1001010101 0101011101 0101010111 011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 81
  • 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; little, and, turn, ', in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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