This is an analysis of the poem Evenings of Certain Lives that begins with:
You don't need always to be scrubbing the tiles, Hendrickje,
my eye drinks itself, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXd efgfgdhi bbjjdjck eXXgjXhdga X jdHhddXkXdccd XjdkXej Xdhdijjj iXggXdj hhdhidghHdXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,10,1,13,7,8,7,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100100110 11101 10101 110100101 010101 0111 00110100010 1 1010101 01111101 11101 01010101 1111101 1010011 110 00111110 101 1110110110101 110110 1110011 011011011 111011101010101 1000101 101011 10 101101000 10100 10110 1100 110 101 11010 1111 101001111 1 01101 01010101 01111 1011001001 01100 010101000100 100111100 110 100 10101 101 110 10101 10101100 1010001100 101101 101000 0010010011101 1101110 10010100100 0111010 110101 1101 1110001 11100100 100111001100 1100010 11110111 1110110 1101000 111101 11001 101100 0100 0110001 1011001 01010101 01010010 101 11110 101101 111 1001001 01111 1010100101 01001011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mine is repeated).
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