This is an analysis of the poem The Empty House that begins with:
See this house, how dark it is
Beneath its vast-boughed trees! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabb ccccXXXadd eeeeffaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 0101101 11100101 0110001 01011101 1000101 1111101 1101001 101011 1000111 10011111 1010111 1110101 10100 110101 11110101 0010111 1101 111101 110101 100101001 101111 1100101 110101 01111100 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.
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