This is an analysis of the poem In The Valley Of The Elwy that begins with:

I remember a house where all were good
To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccacca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1010011100 0111010111 10011110100 1111011111 11011111001 11010100101001 01110110001 1010110101 1001101111 10111110101 1001111101 110011001001 0111011101 10100101001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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