This is an analysis of the poem The House That Was that begins with:
Of the old house, only a few, crumbled
Courses of brick, smothered in nettle and dock, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcddeXefgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0011100110 10011001011 101110101010 1010110101 11110111101 110010100110 111111001011 110101001010 00110100110 0101101101110 110100101100 111100101010 11001110011 1110110101 0101010111 101100101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 745
- Average number of words per stanza: 128
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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