This is an analysis of the poem Goodnight Little Houseplant that begins with:
Goodnight little houseplant asleep on the sill
I'll pull the shades so you don't catch a chill...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111010001101 1101111101 10110010101011 1111111110011 111010010111 111111001 01010100101001 11111001001 111010011 111010111101 01111001110 1111011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 587
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for are repeated.
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