This is an analysis of the poem What The Shutter Said As She Lay By The Fire that begins with:

In The Farmer's House
I'M glad to lie on a sack of leaves...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccdDXXeebbXffbfbb ggbaaffcch hdddccffgXXbDb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,10,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00101 010110101 1010101111 1011111101 011111011 10100101101 011100011 011010001 1100101001 11101101 01110111 11011111 11101111 111101010 11101101 1101101111 01010001 010100101 01010011 11010101 111101111 110110101 011101001 1110100111 10111001001 1101001001 11111101 111100101 0010101001 111110110 11011111 110111101 11101001 10110101 1100100111 1101111101 1010011101 001010101 11111101 1011111010 1101001011 011100011 010111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 401
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, and, i'd are repeated.

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

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