This is an analysis of the poem To His Wife that begins with:
O Pure of soul, and fond and deep of heart
For those who darkened be, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb Xbcb XbdB XbbB Xbab cbdb abXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101111101 111100 1111011111 1111 1111010111 011100 0101111101 1111 1101010101 100111 110101111 1111 0101110101 1100110 11010100101 1111 11111101001 00101001 1111011101 1111 11001110111 010101 1110010111 1111 1101011101 110010 11110011101 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, thou are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word me at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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