This is an analysis of the poem The Dream—house that begins with:
Often we talk of the house that we will build
For airier and less jostled days than these... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdcebbfbgbchgibbXdjafXgaheahklbXmnXkcaidXjbicbbijiinXeghfondbabbaicbjdkfXgbkeiofaXacdbmjgddld
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 96,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110011101 1101110111 1101110101 1101000101 0100101111 1101110101 110101011010 1101101001 0111111101 1100001101 1101010101 01010010011 11010010100 10011010111 1101110011 1101010101 1101010011 1101100101 1101110011 0101011011 01010101001 11000101010 0100010001 1101110101 0110110111 1001011101 1111001101 1111010101 1101000110 1111011001 1011011101 10011010011 1011010011 1001000111 00010101001 11010100111 11110100001 10111101100 10010100101 0100110001 101001010101 10111100101 1011110101 110100111000 1001010101 1011010101 1011011111 1101011001 10111101111 0001100001 0100010001110 1001011100 1101000101 1101100101 0111111101 10000101100 11111111010 1011010100 1111010111 1101110011 1111000100 10100010101 10100011000 10100001101 1111111101 1100010101 1101110101 011100100101 10101010001 0101010111 0110011100 1100110101 110101001001 0100010101 0101110101 10001010100 1011110111 11011100101 1111110101 100100101110 1101010011 01001001010 0101011101 1111000101 1100010111 0011110101 01000011001 1101100101 1100010101 1100010101 1100010011 0101111011 1001010101 0111010110 1111111111 1011111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4055
- Average number of words per stanza: 743
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; we, and, as, of, to, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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