This is an analysis of the poem House Or Window Flies that begins with:

These little window dwellers, in cottages and halls, were always
entertaining to me; after dancing in the window all day from sunrise... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXXba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010010011011 1010011010001011011 01111100110011100 1010101101111101 11011111101001010 11001011011011001000 11111111101101101 1101110100111001110 101001111111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 67 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 13
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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