This is an analysis of the poem To Cure Wounds Is So Rigid that begins with:
To cure wounds is so rigid:
They drank the air and poisoned bread....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaba cdcb eaea fdfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110110 11011101 110111010 1101101 01110101 0111111 0110111 0111101 111111010 11010001 110101010 01011001 100101010 11010101 110101110 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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