This is an analysis of the poem A Holiday that begins with:
The Wife
The house is like a garden, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXcXdef Ghhii AiieiedXd Ghhdf jdgkgXdXdifXjkkbbfd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,9,5,19,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01 0101010 0101010 01001110 1101010 1101110 111101 11011111 010101 010 0100110111 0101010101 1101101101 1101110101 01 0100110 010101 0101011 110101 011111 111101 11111111 011011 010 0111110101 0100110011 1111011101 1111011101 0110 1111011 110101 0111111 101111 0101110 010111 01010101 110101 11110111 100101 01010 1111011101 1111000101 11110010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word holiday at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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