This is an analysis of the poem The Wife Of All Ages that begins with:
I DO not catch these subtle shades of feeling,
Your fine distinctions are too fine for me; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc XdXdbb cbXbee fdfdbb fbXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111101010 1101011111 010101010010 0111110111 0111111001 1101011100 01111111110 1111111101 11110111010 11010100111 01110110111 1101111101 11110101010 1111011101 111100011100 0001011100 1110111111 10110010001 11010111010 10110101101 01010011010 1001010111 0101011101 01010101001 01111101110 0101111111 11011111110 1111001100 1101110101 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, you, love, i, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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