This is an analysis of the poem To The Genius Of His House that begins with:
Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence
Into this house pour down thy influence,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbbaXXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101110101 0001111100 1111010111 0101011100 1001010101 010111010 1101010111 1101011111 1101111101 0101110100 1101010111 1111010100 1001011101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 609
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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