This is an analysis of the poem My Picture-Callery that begins with:
IN a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house,
It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001011110010001011 001001001100110010 10101111010011100 1010011101001 111100010101 0101110010010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 384
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word here is repeated.
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