This is an analysis of the poem Someone's Mother that begins with:

Someone's Mother trails the street
Wrapt in rotted rags; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababacac dedefgfg gdgdacac hehegiggi
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 10101 1010101 10011 1000101 10101 0010101 10101 1110001 00111 1010101 11101 0011101 10101 0010101 11101 1110101 11101 1011101 10101 1010101 10011 1110101 111101 1110101 10111 1010101 10101 1011101 11001 1110011 1110101 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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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