This is an analysis of the poem An Angel In The House that begins with:

How sweet it were, if without feeble fright,
Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1100001101 1100010101 1101011111 0111000101 1100111111 00111110010 10111101110 01011111010 0111111101 0111101100 1100101101 1111010101 0101011111 010001100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we are repeated.

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