This is an analysis of the poem The House Delirious that begins with:
Come in and tread thou quietly
Within the duskiness....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdededddd daXa ffffccXfgggghgXgXdidiXbbb jijikbkbjgjg blaldmdmieiehchgcffffXdhdgdgXididfkgk bbXbdidihnhnhbhbidiXfobfb ododfgfgXfXf ggfgbfgXigihkhXii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,25,12,37,25,12,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111100 010100 011111 0101010111 01110100 1001 110100 01011 0100 011100 1001101010111 0101000111 1100110011 0101110100 1100010111 010111010100 10101 0101 110101 11011111 0101001101 101111 11110100 11000100101 01011 01110101 1111111100 1111110101 1010011100 0111 010010 1101110111 0111 1111 1101011111 10110111 1100111 10111101000 0101 1101000111 1010001 0101001101 1011 1101 001111 0110000111 110101010101 11010001 1101 11010101 111101 11110101 01010101 1101 111111 110110110100 1101 1111011101 101011 1101111101 01001101 11010 010001 11110 11010111 101000101 0111010111 11011101 1111110101 01 011111 10110101 11011101 11101010101 1101010111 01011001 110101 110101 0101010101 010100 11001101 0100 1011011101 01001011101 1101000101 1101010011001 111101111 101 011101111 101 1101110101 0101010101 110101011100 100110101001 01100101 01010101 0111100101 111101 1011011101 1101010111 111000101 01010101 11010001 1001010101 1101001001 010100110001 0101011111 01101101 11110111 1101001000 1101010001 0101010001 01 1111 0101110101 1111111101 110101 11010011 01010001 01010111 1111101 10101 111 1011100 110111 10100100 10100 1101011101 11 1111010101 0111 001101010111 01 1111111101 11110111010 1 1111010001 01011101 010101 110100101010 001 1111010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; these, my, rooms, and, of, that, it, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, no, and are repeated.
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- summary of The House Delirious;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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