This is an analysis of the poem Remembering Mountain Men that begins with:
I put my foot in cold water
and hold it there: early mornings...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 11011010 11011101 010100110 01111011 01100110 0010111111 11111110111 11011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 9
- 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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