This is an analysis of the poem The House Across The Way that begins with:

The leaves looked in at the window
Of the house across the way, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbbXbXbXXXbXbXXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101010 0010101 1011111111 111101 1101010 111101 10101101010 0010111 1111110 1110101 1011101010 110101 101110010 10110101 101111010 111101 101101010 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 592
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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 word and is repeated.

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  • summary of The House Across The Way;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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