This is an analysis of The Empty House by Walter de la Mare.

See this house, how dark it is
Beneath its vast-boughed trees!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabb ccccXXXadd eeeeffaa
  • Stanza lengths: 8,10,8,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

some