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

PILGRIMS who journey in the narrow way,
Should go as little cumbered as they may.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXa aaddeeff eeccgghhggaahhddii ffjjggeehhaaiibXgghh ggeeiiiijjaakeaajjhhffhhaallmmjjcchh iijjjjffffaaeeddjj iimmjjhhjjnnee eehheeiiccoXgghhiigg ccggjjllcceeff eeiigg ffffddhh ppeeffffllXXjjff ggccjjeehhppcceeXphhccffjjhhii ggkkjjffaajXddiioo iippXih
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,18,20,36,18,14,20,14,6,8,16,30,18,29,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011000101 11110100111 1101000101 11010000111 1101010110 1001011101 1111111110 0101010101 11011110001 1101010001 1011110011 1101110011 1111010101 0111001111 1111011101 0101110111 1101010111 1101010101 11011100111 01010110001 1101011101 0101010101 0101011101 11011100101 01001010101 0101110001 111100100101 1101010101 0101011001 1111010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101010101 1001110001 1111010001 0101110101 11010101010 11011101110 0101010001 0101010101 0111111111 1001101101 1101110001 1011010101 1001110111 11010010101 1101110001 0111010101 1111111101 1101010100 11010101010 11111101010 100101101 1101010111 1111010101 1001111101 0111011101 1111011111 1101011101 1011110111 1111011101 0111110101 1101110111 11010110101 1101011101 1110110101 11110101110 01001011101 1111110101 0101010111 11010101010 01110101010 0111010101 11100010101 1101011101 11010101001 10010100111 1001110101 0101010101 1001110101 0101011101 01010011001 1001110001 01001010001 0101010111 1101001111 1111110101 1011011101 1101010111 1101011101 1101010111 0101010001 0101110101 1101010101 1001010101 0111000101 11110010101 1111110011 0001110101 1101010101 10110100101 1111011101 1111000101 1101010111 1101010101 0111110101 11011101001 0100110101 1101010101 0101011101 1101011101 1101000111 01010101001 10010101001 1110110101 1111011101 1100000111 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101111101 1001010111 1101010101 11001010101 0111000101 1111010101 11010010101 01010100101 1001010101 110100101001 10101010101 10101011101 11110101011 1101010001 1001010111 0101010101 1101110111 0101011101 01101010110 1101010111 1110100101 0111010111 01011111001 1111011101 10010000110 11010001000 01001011101 1101010101 11001001101 11010100101 11001010011 0101000101 1001000101 0101010101 11011010001 10010101001 1111111101 11011101001 1111110101 1101111101 0111111111 11010101001 1101010101 0111010001 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 01010100101 1101110101 11001110101 01001010101 1101111101 0111000101 0101110001 11101000101 0100011111 0101110001 1101010111 0101010101 1111111110 110100100111 01010101001 0101011101 1011000101 1101111101 1101000111 1111111001 0101001101 1101010111 11011100011 0100010111 0111011101 11011100101 1001011111 0101010111 01010010001 01110100101 1011010101 1011010101 1011110101 10001111101 1111110101 1101111100 1101010111 1101111101 1101010101 1011000101 0101010101 11010101001 1001010001 0111110101 01010101001 1111110001 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1001110101 010010101110 10011100010 0101010101 11010000101 1001011111 0111010101 11011101001 0111110101 10111110101 10010010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 11111101001 0111010101 0101010101 11010100111 11001010111 0101111101 1101010110 1001011101 11010101001 1111101101 0101110101 11110010001 1101010001 11010010101 1001011101 1101010101 1111011101 0101001011 1101011101 1111110101 1111011101 1111110111 1111010101 1111010101 1101010001 1111001111 1001010101 1111110111 0101111100 0111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 727
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 262
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, nor, and, their, to, for, in, he, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'tis, the, they, thus are repeated.

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