This is an analysis of the poem Domestic Scene that begins with:
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit,
The family sat in its glow;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd a e afafgggX e bhbhgigX e hfhfgjgX h kjkjgkXX lilimdmd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100111 01001001 01010101 01010101 01010101 01110101 01010111 01111011 1 010 101011011 11011101 01011111 11010100 01010101 11010001 11011111 1111111100 010 11010101 11010101 01111101 11111101 11001101 10110001 01011111 110100110 010 101110111 10110111 11000101 11010101 11110101 11111101 10111101 1111011100 01 10010001 11100111 11110111 1101011 01010011 01111101 01111001 111101010 11100101 01010001 11011101 11011001 11010111 01011101 01011111 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, and, my, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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