This is an analysis of the poem 'Miners Wives' that begins with:
We have borne good sons to broken men,
Nurtured them on our hungry breast,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab XcXc dede fefe gege
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111010101 10011101 110001101 11011101 11111011010 1000101001 1011000010 101100001 1111000101 1101100101 1110011101 10010101 1111010101 01011101 111010101 110100111 1111011101 00011011 1111111111 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words watched, we are repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- history of its creation;
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