This is an analysis of the poem A Wife Consoled By Her Husband's Arrival that begins with:
Cold is the wind, fast falls the rain,
The cock aye shrilly crows....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAb aXAb acAc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011101 011101 11111101 111101 10011001 011110 11111101 111111 11010111 100111 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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