This is an analysis of the poem Nell And John that begins with:
When Nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying,
And John at the chimney stood decently crying,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101010110 111010110010 101101001101 10111111011 11011111001 11101011111 01011111111 111111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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