This is an analysis of the poem Behind The Arras that begins with:
I like the old house tolerably well,
Where I must dwell... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccccX ddeee ddfff aaddd ccggg hhiXX hhjjj aafff kkfff Xgggg Xilll ffbbb cckkk ggggg iilll fkaaa mmnnn fffff eeiii bbfff kkooo ppaaa aaddd bXggg fXcXX qqXll iiaaa iieee ggccc hhggg XXddd kkfff kknnn ffeee iigXX iiggg ffeee rrddd gg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110001 1111 100101 1111011111 1101 1101110101 0101 110101 01001110001 1110 1101111111 0101 001101 1011111111 11101 1011010101 10111 011101 1001011101 1111 10110100101 0111 010101 1111110111 1111 11010100101 1101 101101 1101010101 1101 1011111111 00101 1011101 1101001101 1111 1111110101 1101 1100101 1001011001 0101 1101010111 1111 111101 1101111101 0101 1101111101 1001 101101 010011010101 1111 1100110110 1011 011011 1011011101 01001 11010100100 1001 111111 10011101111 10001 0101110101 1101 010101 1101110111 10101 110011111001 11001 1101001 11111100111 0101 1111001101 1111 010101 1101110001 1101 0111111111 1101 110101 1111110101 1101 1111110100 1101 110101 0111110110 1101 1111111101 1101 110101 1100010111 1001 1101110111 1101 011111 0111110011 0101 1101110111 1101 111111 1011011101 1111 1111110011 1101 110111 1011010111 1001 1110010111 0101 0100101 0111010111 0101 1001110111 1111 1101000 1011110111 1101 01110100101 1101 101101 0101010111 01011 0001101101 11100 010101 11010110111 1101 0111010011 1110 0101001 11111101110 01010 0111110011 01011 010101 0101011101 1111 1101010101 1111 000101 1001100101 1001 11010010111 1101 110111 0101100011 1001 1011110011 1011 110101 1110110011 11101 011101011111 00101 0101111 10101011101 01011 0101011111 1110 111111 01011001001 1101 1111110101 1001 011101 1010010111 00101 1101010011 1001 011001 10010101001 1101 1100011001 0111 111111 101010100101 0101 1001010111 1001 010111 110011101100 1001 1101111101 0101 111101 1101010101 1101 1001111111 0011 011001 1111010101 0111 11010101010 101010 010101 01011110101 0111 1111101111 1111 100101 1101010001 1101 111111100 1001 1000111 0100111001001 1101 1100010001 1101 010101 11110100101 0010 1111110101 1001 110101 0111011001 0101 1111110101 0101 001101 1011010110 0101 1101000101 01010 110111 10110101001 11001 1011000111 1100 110101 0101010100 11110 1111010101 1101 111111 01011010011 1111 1101011101 01001 110110 01001011101 0101 1111001101 1111 110011 010010011001 1001 0111010001 01111 110101 1101110101 11001 1011011111 0101 101101 1101010011 1101 1111011101 1001 1101010 11010111010 00110 1101110101 1101 010111 1111111111 1101 1101110101 1011 110101 0101011001 0101 100011001011 1011 011001 0001011011 0101 10010100111 0111 010011 0101011111 1101 00110010101 0110 010000 1101010001 0111 11010101101 00100 100101 1111011101 1011 1111011101 1101 111111 1101011101 0111 1101010111 1101 110101 1101011101 0111
- Amount of stanzas: 59
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 340
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, to, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, with, no are repeated.
The author used the same words i, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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