This is an analysis of the poem The Japanese Wife that begins with:
O lord, he said, Japanese women,
real women, they have not forgotten, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcdXeccbfaafgcehfhadicabgjhhakcXajkhif
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110110 110111010 10110 1001111 101001001111 1010 01001011101 11001 1110010 11101010 1010101 1111010110 1101 11110111 11110111011 1111001 10101 11111011111 1111111 1110010 1110101101 11111111 110111111 110 1111111 111110 111111 101101011101 111010101110 01011 1110111011 001011 1010111101 11111011100 1111101101 10111010 10100111011 110 1111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1326
- Average number of words per stanza: 249
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, and are repeated.
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