This is an analysis of the poem For Others—and His Wife that begins with:
HE took off his hat to the woman next door,
But he wouldn't do that for his wife;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccB dBdBdddb ebebfffb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101001011 111011101 11101001101 111011101 11101101101 0101101001 11011010001 111011101 11001001101 111011101 11001001001 111011101 11001001011 101101101001 11101011001 111011101 0011011001001 111010001 11001111001 010001001 11001111001 101101101001 101101001111 001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 341
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, to are repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word wife at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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