This is an analysis of the poem The House With Nobody In It that begins with:
Whenever I walk to Suffern along the Erie track
I go by a poor old farmhouse with its shingles broken and black.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXcc ddee eeff gghh ciibbXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01011010010101 1110111100101011 1011100101111111001 11101010101011100 1101101011111111 11101010111100 110100101110011 101001100010111 011010101010101 1110101011101001 011111010110111 1101010101101001 01101010111101 11010101011111 11111101010100 11111011001110001 101110100101011 11001110101101001 1110100100100111 101010010101101 10111110111 0111101 1110101010101101 011110010111101001 00101101011101111 101011010010101 11011010101101101 10110110100110101001 111110011100100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, house, it, and, needs, to, i'd, that, has are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, i'd are repeated.
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