This is an analysis of the poem The Angel In The House. Book Ii. Canto Iv. that begins with:

Preludes.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdcdebebXfgfhihiigig Xbbbbgjajbibibkbk ieXea g flmlmkhkh Xababaaaa XbfbXibibilil XgjajnanaododfdXdpqpqgbgbbdbdcgcggcgcmcmcnang fgmgo XnhnhadXdajajibXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,17,5,1,9,9,13,45,5,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 110110 11010101 010111101 11011101 01011100 11010111 01110101 01100001 11001101 11110100 11010101 10110111 11010101 11110101 010110101 01010111 10100101 11010001 10110101 11011101 10010101 11110 110100110 11010101 110110100 11010101 01011101 01010101 01010110 100101001 11010101 01010110 11010101 110101001 11011111 11011101 01001101 00110101 1100010 11110111 01111110 11010101 01011111 10100 1 11110101 10110101 11011111 10010111 00111111 11110111 01001011 10111011 1 01010111 11010111 01111111 01111111 110010101 1100100111 11011101 11000101 1 11010101 11011101 11110101 11010100 01010011 111100101 110010101 01010101 111000101 110001101 10111101 11011101 1 11010101 011101001 01011111 11111111 10111100 01010101 11110111 01010111 010101010 11010101 111001110 11000101 11111110 01011101 11001000 010100011 11111001 11010111 01100101 11011111 11011101 011001100 01010101 11011101 11011101 011101001 11010101 10110001 11111111 11010101 010101001 01010101 01011101 11110101 11111111 11110101 11110101 11011110 11110011 01010101 11110101 01010111 11010011 11110101 1 11111001 01010001 001010100 110101110 1 010100101 01110101 01111101 10110101 01111111 11110101 1101000 01110001 11011101 11010011 110111011 11110101 01010101 01010101 110001100 100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; her, in, my, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, whose, my are repeated.

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