This is an analysis of the poem The Haunted House that begins with:
Oh, very gloomy is the house of woe,
Where tears are falling while the bell is knelling,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXab cdcX eeee fefe ghgh eXeX iGIG gbgb gdgd ijij gjgj kjkX gjgj fdfX chch elel gjgj elel fgfg ejej iGIG gmgm hdhd cfcfXghgh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000101 11110101010 0101100011 1100010 1101010001 11010111010 1101010101 0111010 1101111101 01010001010 1111011101 0001010 0101010111 01110101010 1001010101 11001110 0111010101 01000111010 1101010101 0101010 1101101001 01110101011 1101011111 0101010 1111011001 01010001010 1111110001 01010 1001111111 110101001010 0101010001 1101110 1111011101 11010001010 1100010111 0101110 1101100101 10110100010 1101010101 1110010 0101111101 01110101010 1101011111 1101010 0111000101 11011101110 1011010101 0101010 1101010101 01010101010 1101010001 0100010 0101010111 11010101010 1101110111 0101010 0101000101 11010101010 1001110101 1101010 0111110001 11101011010 1101010101 0101010 0101010101 11011101110 1001110101 1001010 0101110101 01010101010 1011000111 1101010 1111011101 100011111110 0100010111 1100010 1101010001 11010101010 11001011101 111010 1101110101 01010001010 1111110001 01010 0101110101 11110101010 0111010101 1100010 0101110011 11001111010 1101001101 0101110 0101010101 01010101010 1101110101 0101110 1101110101 10010101110 0101010101 0101010
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 100
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; or, and, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same words oh, the, some at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Haunted House;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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