This is an analysis of the poem The House In The Wood Beside The Lake that begins with:
The house in the wood beside the lake
That I once knew well I must know no more...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababX cdcdd cecee cfcff gdgdd hihii cdcdd cfcff jbjbb ikikX alall dddXd fifii ididd jkjkk mgmgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010010101 1111111111 11110111 111110111 1111010 010101101 010110101 101111101 1111100111 110101 011110111 101011101 10100110101 111111001 110111 1101101001 01110101 01010101 0100111001 1010101 1010111001 1011011110 10110101001 001111111 1100111 11011101 0011111011 111111111 110100101 1110111 111110111 111101101 111101001 101111111 111111 101101101 111100111 01011101 11011111 110101 11100101101 11011111 1111101001 111111111 110111 0010111111 110100100 111011111 010010111 110110 010010101 001011111 110101111 1010101101 111101 111010101 01011100 111110111 001011110 110111 11111101 110011111 1110100101 111111111 111001 111111001 11100101 11111101 01010101 110011 01110111 10111111 11100101 011101001 1100101 01111101 01010101 01100111 01011111 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; and, we, one, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, they, and are repeated.
The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase recall connects the lines.
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