This is an analysis of the poem Dead In The Cold, A Song-Singing Thrush that begins with:

Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, - ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 100101101 1101001001 1101001 1101101101 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 5
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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