This is an analysis of the poem Blood Feud that begins with:
Once, when my husband was a child, there came
To his father's table, one who called him kin,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXccX dedeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 00101011111 010010010101 0111111101 00110010101 1011001111 100001010101 111101110100 1101010001 0111011101 0101010101 010011101001 1111110101 0101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, and are repeated.
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