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

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdXdeaecfgfgaaaahihieceXjkjkigigaiaigggg XlclamnmneieigXgh Xlclcgogo gegeg X lililndndlala Xalalegeglglg Xaoaogdgdlclagngn XgXglgcgckgkgmjmjdjdb ldadagdgddpdpdqdqgcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,41,17,9,5,1,13,13,17,21,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11 1010 111100101 01011101 010111000 11010101 01000101 01010001 11010111 001010101 11001101 01011101 01010111 11010101 11010111 110111010 01011101 001101010 01011111 110001001 01110101 010000101 11111101 110111101 01010111 01111000 11010111 11010111 11100101 010101101 11110101 01111101 11010100 11110100 11011101 11011100 11010100 11010101 11111101 01010101 01010101 11110010 11010 11011011 11010111 11010101 11010101 11110101 01010001 01011111 11010101 11110101 010110101 10011101 01110111 11010101 01110110 110101001 11000101 110 11010111 10111011 10110111 11110101 110110101 11011101 11010101 111011101 10010 11111111 11111101 11010101 10001101 0100 1 11000111 01111101 011001001 11011101 111101001 11011101 01110101 11100011 01010111 10001101 01111111 11010101 1 10010101 11111101 01111111 11010001 11010101 11110101 11010101 11011101 11111101 01010100 01111111 11110001 1 11001101 11011111 11100101 11110101 11010101 10011111 01001101 111100101 110100111 01000110 11001110 11001100 110010101 11111111 10010111 11011111 1 11110111 01011100 111100101 11110101 11010101 01011011 01010111 11110100 11101111 010010101 01000011 11010101 11111101 11101101 11111111 11110101 11010011 11111001 10110111 110100010 1 11001101 010100101 11010101 11010011 11111101 01010101 11010001 100011101 110100101 110110111 001000101 01010111 100100111 01010011 10010101 011100101 11010111 11010101 11011101 01010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 483
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 161
  • 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, and, in, as, to are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ii at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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