This is an analysis of the poem A.D. Blood that begins with:

If you in the village think that my work was a good one,
Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01001011111001 110011111011 11011010011001 0100010101001 111101001010 10101010010 10111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 7
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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