This is an analysis of the poem Lines On Seeing My Wife And Two Children Sleeping In The Same Chamber that begins with:

And has the earth lost its so spacious round,
The sky its blue circumference above, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcXcdedee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101101101 010101001 1001010101 11110110101 1111111101 1101110101 1100110110 0111010111 1111101101 1101101111 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 97
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

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