This is an analysis of the poem On Sharing A Husband that begins with:

Screw the fate that makes you share a man.
One cuddles under cotton blankets; the other's cold....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ab XX Xb Xa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101 1101010100101 1001111101101 1110110110 11010010111 10101011101 101101111011 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 89
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 8
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.

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  • summary of On Sharing A Husband;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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