This is an analysis of the poem The Kick Under The Table that begins with:
After a man has been married awhile,
And his wife has grown used to his manner...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXbXbcdceaa ccXffbbcee bddddcbbbgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,10,11,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101001 1011110010 11 111101011 101 01101001001 1 1111111111 10111101111 1 1111011111 110 110111110010 111001011001 111001101001 11101100100 1 01001011101 11011001001 111011111001 1011011110 01 101111011101 01101110101 1 111010011001 01100101001 101001101001 11100111100 1 0010110111 10 1110001011001 11101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, he's, he, at, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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