This is an analysis of the poem A Wife Urging Her Husband To Action that begins with:
His lady to the marquis says,
'The cock has crowed; 'tis late....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXcc abXXdd acccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01000111 111111 11111101 111111 10110111 10010101 01111001 111101 01011101 111101 11010111 11110111 11011111 111101 01111111 010101 01000101 111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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