This is an analysis of the poem Dan's Wife that begins with:
Up in early morning light,
Sweeping, dusting, 'setting right,'...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffghG aadXhXbbeebbghG iiddiXhhXjffghGXccjjeeffccjjghG
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,15,31,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1010101 10101101 1010101 1010101 1010101 1011101 1010001 1011101 1011111 1011111 1010101 1010101 110 11 1111101 1110111 1011101 11011110 1110111 10101110 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010111 1011101 100110101 1010101 1010 11 1111101 1010101 1011111 1010101 1010101 1011101 1011101 1010101 1011110 1111101 1010011 1010101 1010101 1010 11 0110011 1010101 1010101 1111001 1010101 1110111 1111101 1011101 1011111 1111101 1010111 1011101 1010111 1010 11
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 431
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, little are repeated.
The author used the same word dan at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wife at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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