This is an analysis of the poem The Truce Between The Sexes that begins with:
For a long time unhappy
with my man,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbccddeecfX gdddh ciXjc ddXcXk lflhcfffblf khihlkmajfm elllcf Xek biccgXgeg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,5,6,11,11,6,3,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011010 011 111 1101 01101 0111110101 011001 11011 10011 0101001 1110 11 11110101 110100 1000 10101 01001 11101 0110101 0111 10110 111 01111 111101 11 1111 110000 101100 101111 111001 100101110 11001011 1010001 01 100001 101 1101111 011100 010101 01111010 11101 1010100010 1111101 1110100 1101010 011 111010 11010 1101010 00111 1100111 1111110 1101110100 0111 1101 10100100 100100 111110 11010110 100101 10111 011001 001001 11 111010 1001001 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 67
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; blamed is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, myself, them are repeated).
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