This is an analysis of the poem Barry Holden that begins with:
The very fall my sister Nancy Knapp
Set fire to the house...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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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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