This is an analysis of the poem When Mother Cooked With Wood that begins with:

I do not quarrel with the gas,
Our modern range is fine,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcDdbdbddddefefbdbdfgfghdhDcbcbidiD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 110101 01011101 0111001 11111101 010100 11111100 110101 01110001 010101 10110111 110101 10111101 110001 10010011 010001 11110101 110111 01010101 110011 110010111 110100 11110111 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 111101 11010111 1110011 01110101 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 010111 11110111 011111 01111101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 238
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, days, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, i are repeated.

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