This is an analysis of the poem On A Tired Housewife that begins with:
HERE lies a poor woman who was always tired,
She lived in a house where help wasn't hired:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110111110 11001111010 011110111110 011110110110 110110010110 111111110010 101110011010 110111010010 11111111110 11100110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; be is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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