This is an analysis of the poem A Poet's Wife that begins with:

You have taken our love and turned it into coins of silver.
You sell the love poems you wrote for me,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011110001010 1101101111 1001001110101 1111011 1111110 1011111100 101011 101010100100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.

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