This is an analysis of the poem Wife To Husband that begins with:
Pardon the faults in me,
For the love of years ago:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abAabA cdAcdA ccAcXA ebAebA bfAbfA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101 1010001 01 1110101 1110001 111 111001 111111 01 1111111 101001 111 110101 11010 01 1111101 11110 111 01111 10111 01 011111 010111 111 10111 10111 01 111101 100100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, must are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you, a, not are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word die at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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