This is an analysis of the poem In The House Of Idiedaily that begins with:

OH, but life went gaily, gaily,
In the house of Idiedaily!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddcccceeffAXggXXhhiijjAXkkXfbbXXaaeeAX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 00101000 1011101 10101001 10101010 10101110 10000011 10001011 10100110 11101010 10111010 100100010 10111110 10101110 1010001 10001001 11111010 00101000 10100010 00101110 11101110 10101110 10111010 00110110 10100110 10111110 1011011 1010101 11111010 0010100 1011111 0010001 11111110 10101011 10111110 11101010 10111110 10111010 10111010 10101010 10101001 1110101 11111010 00101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1409
  • Average number of words per stanza: 251
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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