This is an analysis of the poem The Woman And The Wife that begins with:
I--THE EXPLANATION
"You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccb dedeeX X cfgccffc hahggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,6,1,8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101010 1011101110101 0111011111 1111111001 0111111101 1111010011 1001111111 0100101001 11000101001 101111111111 1111010111 1111110111 1111110101 1101110101 01110111110 1010100 10101110010 11111111111 1101011100 1101111101 1001011111 1100010111 1001000110 1011011101 10001111101 1101111101 1111011101 11111110101 1101010001 111101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, i, me, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, whatever are repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Woman And The Wife;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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