This is an analysis of the poem The Dead Wife that begins with:
Thrice turned she in her narrow bed,
His tears disturbed her rest;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXecXfXXbgXefaXXhah XaiabebXXahacbXbaabacjgjXaaadgdg fbaXhdddcaeahidiXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,32,20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101 010101 11010111 110101 11111101 111111 11110101 010101 11110101 011011 11111101 111101 01011010 010111 11111101 110101 11100111 010111 10110101 110101 11110110 010101 11110111 110111 11011111 011101 11110111 110101 11111101 111101 11011111 1111100 110111100 011101 11110111 110101 11111101 111101 11010111 101111 11010111 1010101 11111001 111101 11111111 110101 11110001 110111 11111101 110011 11111011 110111 11111111 110101 11110111 011111 10011001 010101 11010101 010111 11010111 010101 11010111 111101 11111111 111101 11111101 110101 11111101 110111 10111111 111101 11110111 110101 11100111 100111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 794
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 76
- 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; her, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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