This is an analysis of the poem Aunt Imogen that begins with:

Aunt Imogen was coming, and therefore
The children—Jane, Sylvester, and Young George— ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefghdcaaeeXii faegjkiilfddkilmddbifcialcglnn jnilodlcpgqjfcgXdcnc nlXifdoldmlfceflplelhdellccildpqflllnaldlonXliaiednjlkc cjfcqgflclXadgcibifiel
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,30,20,55,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1100110111 0101010111 0111111101 1100000011 1110010111 0101111101 1101001100 1111010001 0100010101 1101011100 1111011001 1101011111 1111110100 1101011111 0100001100 1111010011 1111110101 11010101001 1100011111 1101111101 1101010001 0100011110 1101010101 10001010100 1111010001 1001001100 1101011101 11111111001 11001010111 10111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1111000100 0101011111 1100111101 1111010011 11010111010 1101000011 1101011100 1100110001 1001111111 1101110111 1100010101 01110011101 1111111111 1101010101 1100110101 11010010111 1111011101 1111110101 1111111100 1101101101 01001011111 110010000101 11001110001 1100011101 1111110101 0111110100 10010100101 1110111100 1101111101 1110010100 1101111100 0100011110 01010100101 0101111101 0111111111 1111001101 0100110001 1110011111 00101010000 1101001101 0100010001 1101011101 0111110101 1111000101 1110010100 1111011111 1001111001 1100011100 1001110101 1101111101 1101110011 1001010101 1100010100 0101011101 11010010101 1111001001 0110011101 1101010100 1100011111 0101010100 1111110001 1111010111 0111011101 0101010001 0111110101 1111011101 1111001100 0011111011 1001110101 1001111101 1111010101 0101011101 1111011001 1100110111 0101010101 0101001111 1101111101 0101010101 1111001111 01111101000 1011011011 1100010101 1101010011 1110010001 1100110001 0100100001 1111111111 1111010111 0101101111 1111111110 1111111111 0100011001 1111010001 111110101 11110101010 0101010001 1010110100 1111001111 1111001100 1111011110 11111111110 0101001111 0101010001 0100010111 1010010101 1101001010 0011001111 1111100011 1101011111 11100111001 1111011111 1001111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 228
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, by, for, so, she, jane, it, her, had, of, that, there, not, could, him are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, never, one, now are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines laugh is repeated).

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

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