This is an analysis of the poem An Old Life that begins with:
Snow fell in the night.
At five-fifteen I woke to a bluish...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcbacXXXXdbdXXaXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001 1101110010 10101 0101111101 1101101 110010101 011010 011110010 11111010 0111101 100100 100100110 1110111 01101011 110101 001010101 10011101 1111101 10111 01000111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 605
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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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