This is an analysis of the poem 'Tis True—they Shut Me In The Cold that begins with:
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'Tis true—They shut me in the Cold—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXb bbab XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111001 110101 11110101 010100 11110100 010001 11011001 110101 01101111 111101 01010111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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