This is an analysis of the poem The House In The Woods that begins with:

At the back of the houses there is the wood.
While there is a leaf of summer left, the wood...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa ba cd Xc eX ff ga Xd hi ie ge ch eX aX eb ed fh ag dX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10100101001 11001010101 1111111011 1111111100 1100010010001 00100010110010 1101110011 011111010 11101010101 01000100111 111100010100 110101010101 10110001 01111100110001 111111110111 01001001010100 10101010101 011011111111 11111111111 11111100101 101010111111 10111111101 10110110100 11110010001 101111110111 01110111010 01011000011101 111101011011 11100101111 011111100010 001001111111010 0110100101110 11110010101 11110111010111 11010001110101 1001011001 11110100101010 001001011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 38
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, to, no, there, nothing are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wood, know are repeated).

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  • summary of The House In The Woods;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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