This is an analysis of the poem The Wife Of Flanders that begins with:
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered,
Where I had seven sons until to-day, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb bfbf cgcg XeXe dhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100110 1111010101 01010111110 0011011111 11011101010 0110011111 1101101001010 1101011001 11111101110 10101011111 10110101010 11111111101 10010111111 0011110101 10010111111 1101111101 11111111010 1011011111 11111100010 1111110111 01011111110 1101110101 11011111010 01011000111 11010101010 1111010110 11110111010 1111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; and, you, for, that, should, how, pay, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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