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

Preludes.
I Perfect Love rare ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcdXdefafgXgghahaiaiaacac cdgdgjkjlfmfgndndococ fdbdbapapdadeXbib cqhqh h gbebeqhqh XdXdgcdcd XgcgcododfkflpapaXgbmhehejcjcgqgq Xhchcqhqheeeedrdrdbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,25,21,17,5,1,9,9,33,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 10111 11011101 11011001 111111100 000101001 01111101 11111101 01000110 11001111 110011001 01010111 110011111 11010101 11111101 11010101 01010111 11010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 01010100 110010101 01100011 10100111 11010101 11101 10111001 01010111 01001101 01011111 11110101 01010101 11110100 11010100 11011001 01010100 11010011 11010101 01010111 01110101 01010101 11110101 01010101 101110001 01011111 01110111 111000 110101110 01010101 11100101 01010111 110011101 11010001 01011101 01011011 01000101 101000100 01110001 11110101 11011111 01010101 11110101 11110101 10101 11110111 11110111 11110011 11110101 01 1 01011101 11100101 01111111 01110101 11000111 110100101 11010011 01011101 1 01110111 11111100 110010101 11011101 11111111 110011101 11010111 11011011 1 01110101 110101011 101110111 01011111 11111111 01010111 01010111 10110111 11111000 11011111 111100111 11111100 11110111 11011101 01110111 11010100 11010101 11111111 11010101 01110100 11111011 11010111 01011111 01110111 11010101 1011100010 01110011 100100010 11011101 11111101 10111111 11011111 1 111101111 11111011 010010001 010101001 111111111 00111101 11110111 11101111 10110100 01000110 110111001 01000101 110100101 10011101 11011101 10110111 101110111 110011101 10110101 011100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 471
  • Average number of words per stanza: 88
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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; most, of, to, her, you, love, as, my, i, and are repeated.

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

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