This is an analysis of the poem A Great Man's House that begins with:
It was written in marble in golden letters:
here a great man lived and worked and died....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeb fgacahg bigifbjf aXijk chahXcXXiab keba dkbflbgXXjXl
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,8,5,11,4,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001001010 101111111 110101111000 01111110101 101 1101111001 110000111011 10111011001 10011 101110110 010110 11011 10101111 001110 001011 110111011 1011101010101 0111011 01101100101 110 110111 001011101010 11100101 01111001110 01001111110 110 10010 111001 110100010 01101101011 1 111001110100 010111110100 1 01000101011 0010001110001 01 111010100110 010111111 11111011010 0101 11001 10000100 1101001 110110110010 0111 1011110001001 01 11111010 11010110110 11000100 010001010100100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, in, a, the, he, and are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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