This is an analysis of the poem I Was The Slightest In The House that begins with:
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I was the slightest in the House—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXX aXXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101000100 1101010 111101110 111000 11011101 1101010 111100 11100100 10110 110100001000 1111110 11110100000 0101110 100110110 110111 01001101 110000110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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