This is an analysis of the poem The Quarrel that begins with:
When Mary found fault with me that day the trouble was well begun.
No man likes being found fault with, no man really thinks it fun... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc dd ccee XXdd ffccee aaXX ggcX aadXdhh ffcc bbggddiieX ddddffcceX aX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,4,4,6,4,4,7,4,10,10,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101101110101110 111101101110101 010100100010101 0100101101011111 11011101100111 110110101101101 010111100100101 111011101101111 1110100101101110 110101010100101 10110101101101 011101101101001 110100101111101 1101111011011111 011110100101010 110100101001001 111110101010101 110100101110101 0101011001101011 110101001011001 111100101010111 110010101101001 101111000100101 110110100100111 110100111111001 111011011110111 01011010110100111 1110110111110010110 1101111001101101 0110111011101001 100111011001011 11010101111111101 101111101110011 110101011101101 1010111101011011 111110100101111 101011001111 010111 101011101101101 101110101001101 001010100101001 110011101111101 110010100101001 111011101110101 10101101011100101 110111101111011 010100101100111 000111001100111 011010111100101 110101101101011 1010001101111001 101101101100111 1110111011010110 011101100010101 110101011111011 110010110101001 111110111101011 110100100011101 11111010101100 110100101101101 1100100101100101 010101100111001 110011110110011110 10111100101001 0101001111011010
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 336
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; day, so, he, to, our, and, where, i, her, we, awoke, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words but, and are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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