This is an analysis of the poem Within Me Are Five Great Mansions that begins with:
Within me are five great mansions- All five brightly lit;
What need have I of another lamp? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111011101 111100101 111100100001111010 11010101 11101010001101 111100101 0011111 1101110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; five is repeated.
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