This is an analysis of the poem The Need Of Being Versed In Country Things that begins with:

The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow. ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb defe ccXc Xada Xgeg cfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01110101 001110111 10101100111 1010100101 01010101 11110101 1000000111 010100101 110100111 111110101 0110101001 110100101 011100101 110101110 110110111 011101110 1100110101 101111010 1011111101 10111001010 101110101 1110100111 110010101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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