This is an analysis of the poem Within Me Are Five Great Mansions that begins with:

Within me are five great mansions- All five brightly lit;
What need have I of another lamp? ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111111011101 111100101 111100100001111010 11010101 11101010001101 111100101 0011111 1101110110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; five is repeated.

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  • summary of Within Me Are Five Great Mansions;
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  • history of its creation;
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