This is an analysis of the poem Disillusionment Of Ten O'Clock that begins with:
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaaaXbXXXcbac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 010110 1111 111 110011 110101 110011 10011 0101 110100 101110 0100111000 101111110 1101001 1010 0110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 367
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rings is repeated).
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