This is an analysis of the poem The Husband Of To-Day that begins with:

EYES caught by beauty, fancy by eyes caught;
Sweet possibilities, question, and wonder-- ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccdd bebeffdd XaXaggeedd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010111 11010010110 1001111011 010111100110 1001001010 1001011010 110101111 1001011101 10010110010 010010010010 10110010110 10110111010 1101010110 10110111110 1111001001 101101101 1011011110 101101111 101111111110 1111011001 11110110100 111101110100 1011011111 111101011 01001001101 10111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, what, in, love, you are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word you at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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