This is an analysis of the poem First Death In Nova Scotia that begins with:

In the cold, cold parlor
my mother laid out Arthur...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXcdeda fgfdhdiXXf ajXecfbhih ddigfaXeXa beXbjikcik
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001110 1101110 010100 10101 0101010 1110110 0101010 1011 111110 101010 1101010 010001 110101 110110 101101 010110 011111 11100 01011 100010 10001110 101101 011010100 11101110 1100010 010101 10101 010101 1011110 001101 101101 1111101 1100101 11110011 0111110 0101010 11110101 011111 111101 1111010 0101010 0101110 110111 0011101 10101000 010111 111101 1001010 0011111 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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