This is an analysis of the poem The Ache Of Marriage that begins with:
The ache of marriage:
thigh and tongue, beloved,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abX XaX cXcb Xb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,3,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 111010 11000 01001 111010 11101010 111 00010011 0010 101111 1001110 1110010 0100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 56
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word it at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase it connects the lines.
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