This is an analysis of the poem Fawn's Foster-Mother that begins with:

The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels
With her meagre pale demoralized daughter....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcbbaXXXdXaXdacXbaab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011010101110 0011010110 11111100110001 1101111110 11001111100010 0010101110 10111101010011 1101101110 01011101011001 1111011010 1101011110011 1101101001 101101111011110 110101010 1001011100110 11110110010 0100101101011 0101011101 101100100101011 1001001111 11110001110010100 010010100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 217
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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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