This is an analysis of the poem Washing The Dishes that begins with:
WHEN we on simple rations sup
How easy is the washing up! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ggee hhaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110101 11000101 11010101 01110101 11111111 11110101 11011111 01010101 11110101 11111111 11010111 11010111 01110001 11010001 11010101 11010100 11010101 11010011 01010111 01110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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