This is an analysis of the poem My Wife’s Second Husband that begins with:

THE WORLD goes round, old fellow,
And still I’m in the swim,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaBacada bedefaba fgBgghih jbabjkBk flblfbXb BkXkfcig
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111110 111001 11101010 010111 1110010 011101 1101101 101001 11101010 110111 1101010 111101 1101010 010001 1111110 111101 1111010 110101 11101010 010101 1111111 111111 1111110 010001 0111010 010101 1111010 111001 1101010 110101 11101010 110001 1101110 1100111 01101010 111101 1101110 011101 1110000 1111101 11101010 010101 1111010 111101 1101010 010100 1101010 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; he is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and are repeated.

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