This is an analysis of the poem The Harlot's House that begins with:
We caught the tread of dancing feet,
We loitered down the moonlit street, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aab ccb XXd eed XXX dXf aag Xag ddX eea bbfXaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 110010111 11010101 01010111 11010101 010101001 110100100 100101000 01110101 11010101 01011001 11110001 11011000 11010100 110010110 11110101 11010100 11010111 01011101 01010001 01110101 010100100 111100101 01011011 11001111 11110001 010100010 11110001 11111100 11000101 11000111 01110001 01110111 11011101 010101001 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words we, like, sometimes, the are repeated.
The author used the same word sometimes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Harlot's House;
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