This is an analysis of the poem Alexandrines that begins with:

There is a house that most of all on earth I hate.
Though I have passed through many sorrows and have been...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbccddeeaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100111011111 111111010110 010111110100 1111110110101 100101010101 110111110111 1011111101101 110111010101 11101010110101 101111010101 1100111010001 011011011111 1101011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 693
  • Average number of words per stanza: 137
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to are repeated.

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