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

Preludes.
I The Wife's Tragedy ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bacacdededadafafacacaghgh aXiXijhjhdfdfhfhfidid cffffkgkglflf ahjhj X mhhhhfhfhnfnfolol Xpipiqdqd Xrmrmpppp XjhjhdhdhdidilflXacacilil mfnfnofofiiii mimibdfdfXflflflfijij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,21,13,5,1,17,9,9,25,13,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 101100 11011101 01010101 001000100 11011101 11011111 010110011 11010101 01010011 111101001 01001101 11010001 010001001 10111101 01000101 11110101 11010110 11011101 11010101 11011101 10010001 110111010 11111101 11001010110 11110101 11010 010011100 01010011 010111000 011101101 11110111 11110001 10010011 11011110 11011111 111101101 11110100 11110001 11111101 010101001 01111101 01100111 11111001 10010101 01010101 11010101 10101 11001101 11010101 100100100 110010101 01010101 111111110 01110101 010111010 11110111 11011111 11010101 100011101 1111 01010111 100110111 10010101 01010101 010 1 11110101 11000101 01001010 11011101 11001101 11010011 01111111 01110001 11110111 11110101 01010101 01110111 01011011 10111101 111100111 10010101 1 11010101 11110111 10110111 01010101 11110111 11110111 01110001 01010101 1 01110111 11010101 0100111001 10010101 110100111 10111111 10110101 01011101 1 11111111 11111111 11110101 11111101 10101111 01000111 11010001 11010101 01000101 11110101 010100001 11011101 11000101 11110101 01010001 01011101 11000101 11110101 01011101 11110011 111111001 11110111 100110111 01000101 1 11010101 01110001 11110101 11010101 11010101 11011100 110001101 11011100 11000111 110011001 10010101 01011110 1 11010101 01110111 10110101 01010100 11011101 110101001 01010001 01110111 11011000 01111101 11011101 01111101 01110101 11011101 111101001 10011001 11010001 11011101 010010011 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • 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; and, wife, my, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, i, she, her are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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