This is an analysis of the poem In A Vacant House that begins with:
Someone was calling someone;
now they've stopped. Beyond the glass ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaabacc daeeaXff ghedhgff idbbdijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 1110101 0111010 0111101 11100101 1101101 1001011 1010101 0011000 1110001 0111001 0101011 1010011 1110010 0100101 1010011 1110101 101111 1100011 01010111 110111 1101101 0011001 1011011 0101011 1001011 1101011 1011111 1010111 1001101 1001111 10001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 247
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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- summary of In A Vacant House;
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- history of its creation;
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