This is an analysis of the poem The Wife Of Usher's Well that begins with:
There lived a wife at Usher's Well,
And a wealthy wife was she;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb DXeX Dbeb fgbX XXXh XXfX caiX ggig hbgX fXgX Xgfg XXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 1010111 11111101 110101 11000100 011101 11100101 101101 11000100 011101 11100101 1011101 11011101 110001 11111101 010111 01010100 111111 01011111 1110101 01010111 110101 11011101 111110 11010110 110001 11111101 111111 11110001 110111 111010001 111011 1110111 111101 01000101 111010 01110111 110111 101000101 101110 11110111 0100111 11011111 011111 1111101 1000111 11110101 11011010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, doth are repeated.
The author used the same words they, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase she connects the lines.
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