This is an analysis of the poem I Know Some Lonely Houses Off The Road that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aXaXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXbbb XXXXXX XXbXXX XXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,6,6,6,6,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1111010101 010010110 101 110101 01010 0101 11110 1000010 01010 0111100 110100 110001 11000100111 01010 1111010 11110 11010010 10000 01010001110 11001000 1001000 10101 01000101 0111 1100000 10110 1000100 0100101 0101000 1100000 100100 1000 1111111 10110000 1100 10100 1100001 100000 10110110 100100000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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