This is an analysis of The House Of Clay by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
THERE was a house, a house of clay,
Wherein the inmate sat all day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabcdcdabeebfbfbXbaabdgdgabaabchchXb
- Stanza lengths: 36,
- Metre: 11010101 01011111 1011 11100101 111111 10110101 11111101 1000101101 1101 11111100 01111111 1111 10010111 111111 10010101 110101101 1110111010 1101 110011101 10101101 1111 111010011 111111 01010001 01010111 11010101 0101 11011101 00010111 1111 11011101 111111 11011101 110100111 11011100 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
he, and
Anaphora
the
