This is an analysis of the poem The Haunted House that begins with:
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The shadows sit and stand about its door... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbcddcdbbee Xfgfgfgffgfghihi Xjgjjggklkklaal XmhmmhhmmdXahheegehehd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,16,15,22,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 0111110101 11010111 11011101 0101010100 011101 0101010101 010101 100111 01010101 010111 01110101 01010101 11010101 01011001 1 01001101 01110101 0111011111 0100101 01010111 110101 1100001001 11110101 110111 11010101 111101 1111110101 110101 0111111101 010101 1 01101011010 110111 011011011010 1010010010110 1011101 0101001 010110011010 010000111 101011101010 1111010010 0111 110011101 0111001001 0100111 1 001001110 11111 10101010 10101010 10111 10101 10111010 10101010 00101 1 1010011 10101 1110101 1110111 1000101 1110111 10101 10111 00101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, its, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, comes are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word house at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase shroud connects the lines.
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- summary of The Haunted House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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