This is an analysis of the poem The Love Sonnets Of Proteus. Part Iii: Gods And False Gods: Lix that begins with:

THE HAUNTED HOUSE
How loud the storm blew all that bitter night!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbaababbcabcXac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101 1101111101 0101010101 1111011101 1111011101 1100010001 1100110111 0111011101 0111111001 11101111010 0101110101 1011010111 11010111010 1101000111 1111010100 1110110111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 674
  • Average number of words per stanza: 132
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.

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