This is an analysis of the poem The House Of Fortune Iii that begins with:

My wearied heart bade me farewell and left for the House of Fortune. As he reached that holy city which the soul had blessed and worshipped, he...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X X X X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111111101010111110101011111010110011111111110101010101100101010100 111100100110101111101011111110110 101001010100010101010100010111010110111101010 1011010100110110010101110010101001111 001010100100101100011110110101110111001011001000100111010101100110101110111001011111010100101001010011010110111010110010000 111101100100111011100011101111000100110101011011010111011011101001001001101000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 6
  • Average number of symbols per line: 263 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 45
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, he, contentment, had, not, to, love, for, city are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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