This is an analysis of the poem Barry Holden that begins with:

The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
Set fire to the house...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbaaXcXcdbefXabeXfdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110101 110001 10101001 101001010 11100111 100010010 0111110001001 1010101 111 110110110 1110101 100101 1111111 10100001000101 1010010001 0111111101 101111101 1010 1111101111 10011101 1100100101 1110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 730
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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