This is an analysis of the poem A Story that begins with:

Everyone loves a story. Let's begin with a house.
We can fill it with careful rooms and fill the rooms...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcdXceeXXfXXcghijffiecdciXbbiidXXecfbghaebjbbeba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101001 111001011101 01101101 10110111011 1111110001 01010101101 10011100011 1100101010 11010101101 00111110000010 0101101011100 0101001101001 110101110 010110101011 1101101011101 00010110111010 110101001111 0110000100101 11100111 10110010001 01001010100101 110010011110 1111011101 101101101 100011111010010 111101111 0111101011 101111011100 010111010 011010100101 01111011010 111011001001 010110011101 011010011111 11110010 1011110101 1011111101 011010101001 001010101011 011100100010 001110101 011011100111 110111010 0101001101 111101110001 1111110111 0101111111100 0010000111111 110011111100 010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2335
  • Average number of words per stanza: 439
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, to, at, and are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of A Story;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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