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

Preludes.
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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdcdaaaadXdefgfgagagbdbdbfbfababhXhfadadifif aebebdXaaajajfefe Xakaklili Xmdmd d lXnglefeflanagfgfoaoapepekbkbflfndeaXmdmddfdffffffXfgndldXkakcece Xklkllflfecec
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,45,17,9,5,1,65,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 100100 11010101 01010101 11010111 11000111 100101001 010101001 11010111 11001101 010100100 010011101 100110001 10010101 101000001 101001101 10010010 11010111 11011111 11000101 11011111 010010101 11110001 01011111 11110111 11110101 11110101 01110101 11111101 11110101 01110110 11011101 01011100 110001001 11010101 10110111 11010111 11011111 11100111 01010001 01010101 11000101 11010101 11110001 10010111 11011111 1101 01110101 11010101 11011111 11110101 01010101 110001100 11011100 11010101 11010101 01001001 11011101 01101101 11110101 11010101 11111101 110010111 10101 11010101 11010001 110101001 10110101 10010101 11001001 11000101 11000101 11010 100111000 01001101 11010111 110111101 0100 1 11100110 11111100 00110001 01010111 01111111 11110111 11111101 01011001 11011100 11110111 11001100 11010011 11110001 110101001 11001101 11000101 01010011 01110101 110101001 11001001 11010001 11110101 11011111 11001101 11110101 11010101 01010001 11111101 11111101 01111111 01010101 01110100 110010000 101100111 01000110 11011100 11010100 11010101 10111101 11010111 11010101 11010100 01010101 11110101 11010101 01110001 11011101 01010101 11010101 101101100 11010001 110100101 11010100 11010101 11001101 01000100 1100101100 01110011 110101010 11110101 100100101 10110101 11011111 11011111 1 11111101 11100101 10110101 11110011 1111100101 01010101 011101011 1001100111 11010101 110111001 11110111 010011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 663
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, its, truth, how, their are repeated.

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