This is an analysis of The House By The Side Of The Road by Sam Walter Foss.
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXcadA DEdebaDA dfXfcaDA dbabXada DEXebaDA
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 111011101 00101110 111111101 00100100 1110111101 111101 1111101001 100101 111001101001 1010111 01110101111 1011111 111100101 110101 111001101001 100101 11011101001 101001101 0111001001 01111001 11110101111 11011001 111001101001 100101 111111001101 11001001 101101101101 11001001 111011010001 11001011 11011101001 1011101 111011101001 1010111 110111111111 110111 1111100101 110101 111011101001 100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
men, as, of, they
Anaphora
the, and
Anadiplosis
i
