This is an analysis of the poem Morning In The Burned House that begins with:

In the burned house I am eating breakfast.
You understand: there is no house, there is no breakfast,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab aXc def XXg edX gcc Xhb fii dgj XXj fXhXaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0011111010 1101101110110 1111 011110101 01111010 111001 1111010110 1011010101 0111111010 11010101 1001010 00111010 100011 1111010 0101110 010101010 0010101 101100111 111010010 11101001 1110110 11111111 1100001110 1011111101 00111010 10110111 0101110 010010111 010010111 11110101001110 11110111 11111 011010111 1101011 1011001010 10011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; in, i are repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines breakfast is repeated).

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