This is an analysis of the poem A Wife Deplores The Absence Of Her Husband that begins with:
Away the startled pheasant flies,
With lazy movement of his wings....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa babX acac cdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 01010001 11111011 11010101 01011101 01010111 01110111 11011101 11111111 01001101 11011101 10110101 11011011 111101001 01010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- 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:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his is repeated.
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