This is an analysis of the poem The House Of The Commonwealth that begins with:
We sent a word across the seas that said,
"The house is finished and the doors are wide, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaab ccdccX efdefd gddddhdhdiidcc jjkllk ddmddm XgXkg aaiXinnoooopppgccgqXqqhhbbcicidiXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,14,6,6,5,34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010111 1100 0101000101 1101001101 1101 10011111100 1101010111 1111 1101010111 1101011111 11010 1101010101 1001110111 1111 0101011111 1101111111 1100 1101111101 1101010101 0100010101 010101110101 01000101 110010101 11011101 01000101 00111101 0111 1101 0111001 01010101 11010101 0111011101110 0110011001110 110111 01010111001110 0111010001010 110101 0111010101110 0101011110010 111101 1101010100110 1101110111010 1001001 1110000 1110001 1101100 1101010 1101010101 0101010111 10110011 01010101 010101001 11000101 11111101 01011111 01111101 11010111 10010101 11010101 11010101 01000101 01000101 01011110 110010101 01010001 11110111 011111010 110101010 011111010 010111110 11010111 01010101 01011101 11111101 11110101 01010101 110011101 01011111 01011011 010101011 11010101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, her, of, what, to, people's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, in, the, leaps, a are 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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- summary of The House Of The Commonwealth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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