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

I am heaping the bones of the old mother
To build us a hold against the host of the air;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaabaaXXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11100100110 011010101001 10011001 11001100101 100101001 001010011101 11000101 00010011001 101001101 11010110111 01010101 0110101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 504
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; of is repeated.

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  • summary of To The House;
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  • history of its creation;
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