This is an analysis of the poem Drought Year that begins with:
That time of drought the embered air
burned to the roots of timber and grass. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaaa bbccddXddddbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,14,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 100101011 01011111 11011111 01011101 110101 001101011 110100101 1010101 110110111 001110011 110110001 0011111111 1111111 11100101 111101001011 1011101 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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