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

Preludes.
I The Song of Songs ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abcbcadadaeaefgXghihi bfjfjfkXkdkdkaaba bflflciciXmjmjfjf infofXXaX hmimi f nkckcininhphp Xnenqjnjnapbprarbefeffnfnininmbma Xasasfififnfonjnjbebq
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,17,17,9,5,1,13,33,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 10101 01011101 110010001 10010101 11010001 110101101 11010111 01010011 01000101 11111111 110100101 11010101 11010101 11111101 11010101 11110001 01010101 11010101 11000101 11111101 11011101 101 11110111 11111101 01011101 1010011 01111101 01010111 01011110 11111101 10010101 11010111 00110101 11011111 11010100 001101010 01000110 100111110 1100 01000101 01011101 1100100101 11000101 01010111 11010101 01010101 01010111 11010100 01010111 11010101 01010111 11011101 11011111 11010101 01010001 110010 11110101 01010101 10010100 01010101 01110100 01010101 110100101 11010101 1010 11011101 01011101 11110001 11010111 010 1 11001101 11110111 10010001 01111101 10110101 010010111 10110111 010010111 10110101 01010001 11010101 110100111 1 11011101 11010101 110010111 1101000110 11011111 11111100 11110111 01011101 11010101 01110101 11010101 11010101 01010111 11111100 11110011 01110101 01000101 11110101 01110101 01001101 01010111 11010111 10011111 11010111 11010111 11111101 10010111 11010101 11011101 11010100 11111111 111100110 1 11110101 110011101 01111101 10010101 11011101 11011101 10011101 01000101 11110001 11110101 11000101 001000100 11111001 01111101 010001101 01110111 11111101 11000111 01010010 011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, of, my, i, her are repeated.

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

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