This is an analysis of the poem On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating that begins with:
cold nights on the farm, a sock-shod
stove-warmed flatiron slid under...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXC XdaeC eeebX eaXXd XaXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101011 11100110 010100100 1100010 01011 10011101 1110011 100110010 1111110 01011 1101011 101001001 110010010 11011110 010010 1010110 11011110 11111010 10001101000 11010 0111111 11110110 00101000100 11010100101 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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