They are both like each other because they are both in very unhappy marriages.
This occurrence is called an alternate rhyme because the rhyming verses alternate.
“The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture” by Washington Irving is a sample of the American Gothic Fiction literary genre, he develop several element like creating suspense with picture that “haunts” the narrator, lack of details of the haunted room experiment, with this and other details he add elements of the supernatural, an appeal to emotion and an ominous tone to the story.
Dramatic Irony—When the audience or reader knows something that one or more of the characters doesn't.
Situational Irony—Events or situations become ironic.
