This is an analysis of the poem Who Occupies This House? that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXb XcXc Xded Xfff egXh cXaX Xehe aXcg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110101 010111 1111010000 110111 110101 111101 11111101 010100 01010010 110101 1000010101 010101 011001 010011 1101010 110100 011111 110111 010101010 110100 0101011 100101 10010001 0101100 100100 010011 01010100 0100100 010001 0101110 10000100 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 92
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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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