This is an analysis of the poem The Landlady that begins with:
This is the lair of the landlady
She is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abc XdXe afcbg Xaag adhbeh ieeagX icXfXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,5,4,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 000100110 10 011 1001011 0010010 1010101 10011 01001101 10101010101 11010110 101101 110101 01111 001111 11 1111 1001 1111100 01001101 111110 1110011 1001 1011110 100101 100011111 011101 0110 1101010 11110 1110101 1011 010001 0101 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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