This is an analysis of the poem The Complaint Of A Neglected Wife that begins with:
When the upper robe is green,
With a yellow lining seen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabb ccaadd eebbff gghhee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 0010101 11101010 10111010 1110011 0011001 1010101 1010101 10011001 0010101 1010011 1000101 1110111 111010001 1010011 1001001 1110111 1011111 1110101 1111101 1111101 1110111 1010101 1001001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; my is repeated.
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