This is an analysis of the poem His Wife, The Painter that begins with:
There are sketches on the walls of men and women and ducks,
and outside a large green bus swerves through traffic like...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXXcXdbcedfgghXXXiXjhfaXiXXXeiXXjfkfikXffXahX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010111011 1110111101101 0100100101100100 1010111101101 111001010101111 11 10101011111001 1011111101101 01110111100101 1110101001101 010101111011011 10100101010010 11010010111101 10110001101101 101001010 11010110101011101 10001011 1011101001110 1110101010111100 1111010111011 111010111011111 100101011011110 11111110 111111010111 10101001000 1010 11110111101000 1111011 11 110101111011101 11010011011000 111101111111 1101 01101000100 1010 11010111111100 110011010111111 11011111111000 11010010 110111111011 1000101010101 1011010101010 101111101 010101001 100101010110 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2196
- Average number of words per stanza: 412
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, he, his, some, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word so is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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