This is an analysis of the poem The Hut that begins with:

And once again a fisherman’s hut
opening to me late in the night, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabc defg XXah Xehe ihcj kXig leim anhi fjik eeob elam idhi jnXm hXje nnXc abam mmob Xm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 100011001 100110101 10101111101 1001110010 10001111 110101 110011111 11110110011 0101011011 10101 1101010 0100110010010 010010110011 11100 11011 11110111 1010 01001010 1111010001 110111010010 1110101 110101111 10100010101 011010101 10100110 1110111 001010010 1111001 10010100 0010110 01101110 1101011 1000011 11011 1110110010 1111011 0101001010 110111 100111 0101111 111101001 1010101 1101110 10010101 1010010 1101010 0100111 01111101 1111010010 10101000101 01000101 111111110 110011100 001001110 0010101 1001110100100 1100101000100 110001011 110101010 1010101 1011 101010001 11110110010 11111 100100101 01010111 010111 1 0101101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Hut;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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