This is an analysis of the poem He Called Her In that begins with:

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He called her in from me and shut the door.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a Baaccccaaadccb eeffgcbcgbgghabdXbiiebeejjiieeccicieeekkXallXX X BeeeebbbmmbiicccncneeggccnjnjcbX X Bebeejjaaaaaedeai icchhhjcXbjbnnXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,46,1,32,1,17,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 1100011101 1111011101 1101010111 1111001101 1011100101 1111011101 1101 1111010101 1011011101 1101001111 1101011100 1011000101 0101010111 0111000101 1101 1111011101 1111111111 0111110111 11101101001 110111 0111011101 1111111101 0101010101 1111110111 1111010111 0101010111 10110110101 0101101111 1001110001 1111001100 111111111 1101110111 1111111101 011100 1111011111 0101100101 1001010101 1101011101 01010101011 0001110111 1011010100 0101011101 1000111101 10111101001 1101011111 11010011011 1101010111 0101 0011011100 1111011101 1100110101 1111010101 0101110101 1001111101 1000110101 1111010111 1001101101 1111 101101010110 1100011101 1 1100011101 1111000101 1101110101 1111010101 01010111011 1101001111 0111110101 0101010101 1111110011 1101 0101000101 11110010111 1101101101 1101010101 01011101011 0100111111 0111011111 1100110111 111101101111 0101000101 1101110101 1111001111 1111111101 0101010111 0111010101 1111111011 1101101111 11010111101 0111011101 1101110101 1100110101 1100011101 1 1100011101 10110001111 0101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1111110111 0101111001 110111 1101 0101011111 1101011101 0111 1111001101 1111011100 1100111101 0101110101 1101110001 00110100100 1101100111 0101011101 1101000101 01011111001 0011110111 1100010101 0111011101 1101011000 111001 1101110011 0101001101 0101110111 1111011101 1111010110110 1100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
  • Average number of words per stanza: 125
  • Amount of lines: 130
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, of, me, her, bye, my, i, as, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, that, a are repeated.

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