This is an analysis of the poem From The Antique that begins with:
It's a weary life, it is, she said:
Doubly blank in a woman's lot: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb acbc ddad aebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 001010011 10100101 111111001 1101101001 010110101 10101101 11110101 1010100101 10111101 1010111 10110101 10101111 11110101 1111111 110101101 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; i, not, would are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, still are repeated.
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