This is an analysis of the poem Willard Fluke that begins with:

My wife lost her health,
And dwindled until she weighed scarce ninety pounds....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXacbXaXacdbXXcdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 11001111101 1110101 11010101 111101 1111110101 011111 1101011001 11110111 011100111 11010111111 00101001 1110111 100001110101010 101110 11111110101 11110111100011 11011111 1011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
  • Average number of words per stanza: 133
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; write, of, and are repeated.

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