This is an analysis of the poem At The Summer Cottage that begins with:

Father's in the woodshed,
Cleaning forty fish;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacbXX cdcdcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011 10101 100010 101001 100110 100111 01000101 00100 101010 10101 101010 10101 101010 11100 01010011 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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