This is an analysis of the poem An Evangelist's Wife that begins with:
“Why am I not myself these many days,
You ask? And have you nothing more to ask? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc Xdad ee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111101 1111110101 1111111111 01110110111 1000010111 11111101110 01110111001 11110100010 11110100111 1111110111 1001111101 1100111101 0101110101 1001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, to are repeated.
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