This is an analysis of the poem The Old Lowe House, Staten Island that begins with:
Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes) ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101010101 1101001101 1001000101 1111010101 1000010111 0101000101 10010011101 1101000111 1101010111 0011001100 11010011111 1001000101 11010011101 1001110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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