This is an analysis of the poem When I Was Small, A Woman Died that begins with:
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When I was small, a Woman died—... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaXb bcXX XXXX XaXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 111101010 1000101 11001000 011100 01110010 010111 1101110 1111010 0110010000 01101000 010100100 1101000 11010000 110101 11110111 1100010 01001100 0100101 11000110 0101000
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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