This is an analysis of the poem Sweet&Mdash;Safe&Mdash;Houses that begins with:

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Sweet—safe—Houses—Glad—gay—Houses—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 100000001000000 111010 1010010100 101110 101001010 11101 1010000100 011010 1110001100 11101 0011101000 1000010 110010100 1100010 1000010100 1000010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.

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