This is an analysis of the poem Lot's Wife that begins with:
How simple the pleasures of those childhood days,
Simple but filled with exquisite satisfactions....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcbcXaXXcXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11001001111 101101001010 010101010010 0101010100 11010010101 100100110010 0101010111 011100101010 1011011100 0101010001 10010110001 0011010101 01000100101 11010100011 1101110101 11010101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 698
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.
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