This is an analysis of the poem Keeping His First Wife Now that begins with:
IT’S OH! for a rivet in marriage bonds,
And a splice in the knot untied—... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXcdcd efefbXCd beXeedCd ghehddCd eaXaXdCd igegXdcd agigedXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0110100101 10100101 010000101 0101100 1101100100 101101001 1100100100 0100111 110100111 1101101 10101110101 1011001 101100111 1110111 1100100100 10100111 11101111 01011101 11110100011 1011101 110111101 1110101 1100100100 10110111 110110111 0100101 1110100110 1110101 0100110111 0101101 1100100100 00100111 011100111 1010101 1111101111 10101001 1111111101 1100111 1100100100 00100111 101001101011 11101111 1110110101 0100101 110110100 10100111 1100100100 0100111 1100100101 10110101 010101101 1101101 11001111001 10100101 0101100111 1100111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 287
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; smart, of, his, she, or, her, and, second are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word now at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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