This is an analysis of The Cold by Erin Mouré.
There was a cold
In which…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cd eX fg fX fe ah bi c eX df ia e eaaXXgadhX fXXaa Xc
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,1,10,5,2,
- Metre: 1101 01 01010010110 1 1001 1000 100110010 01010 00100110010 1010 101010 11010001 0111 010111111000 0101 01010101001 10011111 10001 0111011100 0111010101 010011011101010 0100 11101110101 101 11000111 1101 1010 1100011 0101010 11010110 101 111101 10 1100 1101001010110 011000 10110100 1111111111 10 0100010
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 18
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
or, whose
Anaphora
whose, who