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

I'm compelled to live in such a house
Where I'm forbidden to say 'I like it not'...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX bcdeXbef aabdX XXefeec XabaXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,5,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010101 10100011101 111010101 1011110 101001110 1101 1101111010 11101110010 00110111 1101101011001 010101101011 11110100011 1101101000110101 100111011010 100110111 101101111100101 0110110010001001 1011101110110 1101010100 1101001111 010010010 1100101101001 11010 11111 111100011 1111010 101001011 01011011001101001001101010010010101011110100001001000110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; to, live, in, i, from are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines house is repeated).

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  • summary of The Safe House;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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