This is an analysis of the poem A Letter To Her Husband that begins with:

Absent upon Public Employment
My head, my heart, mine eyes, my life, nay more,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeaaffbbggfXffaaggff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100110010 1111111111 1111010101 0101110111 11011111101 11011001010 01011110010 1101010101 1101110101 11110111111 0111010101 11111101 0101110100 0011011111 1111111111 1101011101 1101001101 1101111101 11010100111 1111001101 1111110111 0101001101 0101011101 1101011111 1101011111 10111011 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 580
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; my is repeated.

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

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