This is an analysis of the poem Mutual Forbearance : Necessary To The Happiness Of The Married State that begins with:

The lady thus address'd her spouse--
What a mere dungeon is this house!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhggcciiaajjkkllmmXXddgXnnkkXhbbggooXdachhggddcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 10110001 111101110 101111110 110011110 111101110 11110101 11011001 11010001 11010101 11111111 01110011 11011101 01010111 11110101 11011101 11110111 11110111 01110101 11011111 11111101 10101111 110111001 01011101 110111110 111101010 11011111 11111111 10010101 11001111 01100101 11010101 01110001 10010010 010101010 11001001010 010101001 01010010 110100111 01010101 10010011 01000101 01010110 11110001 11111101 01000101 01010011 11010101 01111101 10110111 011100100 011100010 111101001 110100101 11010011 01010011 10010001 11001101 110111010 110001010 11010100 11101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 396
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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