This is an analysis of the poem Where We Live Now that begins with:
1
We live here because the houses ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abc dea fad X fae gag dac X aah bie ejk X ljj bma aml X kdc nbc Xok X ifp aia bag X aaa qqh ida X ejp gqe qmX X jej akf fXX X bnj gan qoc X qcb abc aqg X fgg jqaXdie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,3,3,1,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11101010 11011 1001 101101 1111 11101111 011101 0011 011111 1 110101101 01101 110111 1111111 1010010 001101 01001101 111010011 10111110 1 100111 1101011 1111 101 101011 1101 0101 1100110 1101110 1 00111 1010110 1111101 110111 110010 10111010 0011000110 011011110 10001 1 111110010 01011001 001111001 00101101 01010101 01111111 1001001 10010011001 01110010 1 1111011 101101101 101 00100011111 111111 10101011 10011 0101011001 110001 1 1111111 0101 110111 00100010 010101010 010011001 1101101 1010101 1110001 1 111101 11110110 111101100 11101011 1101111 110101 111101100 11010010 11111010 1 110110 001011 01100 11110100 01010110 10101 11101 001010010 11101 1 1011010 100011 0110 11001 101111 111001 1001100101 0101010101 011010011 1 1100101 0111001 0101 1110111 1101101 010100100010 11010 0111101 1001 1 1111110 111 11 1101110 111111 0110010 010101101 110101001 1001011
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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 no, of, the, and are repeated.
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- summary of Where We Live Now;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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