This is an analysis of the poem My Room that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcXdXXXeeff aabbffgXXhiibb ddddaaggjjkkbbhhaa ddddhhggeebb cXXgllllmmXkbbmXiXlb bhhddaa ddaammmmnnggkkllllii bbmmmmbbccooddll ddkkmmjjXeddlgcclgddbbdd XcmmXbbbeell mmbbeeppmmjjlllg eeXdqq cccXddaalX ffdXcc ddrrjjddbbcciiss ttddppnniibb uuhh fmXdmmllgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,14,18,12,20,7,20,16,24,12,16,6,10,6,16,12,4,24,10,11,10,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 1010111 1010101 1011101 0110100 100101010 111110100 11111100 10111100 101010010 10101010 1110101 1010001 1011001 1000101 1010111 1010101 11101001 1110111 10101110 110010010 101010100 10011010 1010101 10000101 1011101 1110101 1111001 0101100 1100101 1011101 10111010 100110010 1010100 0011100 1010101 1010101 11101110 00101010 0010101 00111001 0010101 1010111 00111010 10100010 0110101 0010110 10111011 10100011 10111110 01100110 1001010 10111010 10101010 10101110 1010101 1100101 1110101 101100 00100010 10101110 1011101 11101 1000111 1010101 0110111 1010101 10101010 11101010 1010111 1010101 1011111 10101000 10010101 10110101 10111 010 10101110 11101110 1010010 10101010 100010010 11011000 10101010 1011101 1011101 1010101 1110111 1010101 111100 1100001 1010011 10100101 11001001 10101010 10111010 10101010 10101010 10101011 11111011 111010011 10101111 1111101 1010001 1010111 10100101 1011101 1011101 1110101 1111101 1110101 10011101 1110101 1010101 1110101 1010101 0111011 1010001 1010001 00101001 1010001 1011101 10101010 10101010 1111111 1010101 11100101 1110001 1110100 10101011 0110101 1010101 1011101 1010100 1000101 00100010 1010101 1010100 1011101 11101001 1010101 100101001 1011101 1010101 10101000 100101010 10011101 1010101 1111100 10100101 0111101 1010101 11100010 10111010 10100101 1110101 1011111 1011001 1010101 10110101 1010101 1100101 1011111 1010101 0010101 00110101 111111 111101 1010001 1011101 1011111 0101100 1110101 1010101 1010111 1011101 1110111 1000111 1110101 1010100 10101010 10100100 1110001 1100100 1110111 10000101 1010101 1010010 111100100 111010100 1010111 1011010 1010101 1011101 1110111 1010101 0110101 1010011 1010101 1000111 1110101 1011101 1011001 1110101 1110111 1110101 1010111 1010101 1110101 1010101 1110101 10100101 1010101 1010111 1111101 1000111 1110111 1010101 0111111 11101001 1000111 1110101 1111111 1111101 10101110 10110010 1000100 1011100 1000101 1010100 10101010 10111010 1110101 1010101 101011010 11101010 11101110 10101010 11111010 11101110 1011111 1110111 1010001 1010101 111010110 10101010 1110101 1010101 1000111 1011101 1011111 1110101 10101010 10111110 1110101 1110101 1010100 1010101 10111 010 11100010 1010101 1011100 0011001 1010111 1011101 1011111 110010010 10101010 10101110 10100010 11101010 11101110 1010011 1010101 1010101 1110100 1010101 1010111 1010001 1001100 11111010 00111010 1110101 1111001 01101100 00111010 10111010 11111110 00101010 11101010 1011111 00100101 1001001 0011111 1010101 1010100 1010101 0010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 301
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, by, of, thee, and, to, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words lo, nature's, half, must are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, thee are repeated).

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