This is an analysis of the poem Songs With Preludes: Wedlock that begins with:
The sun was streaming in: I woke, and said,
“Where is my wife,—that has been made my wife... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcde fXggdddchdbihdXXfcfdjjfgXfaccffdkkXffldi lmkmk Xcmcm Xcfcf Xemem lfmfm llXlm Xcdcd Xfmfm Xekek
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,40,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 0111001111 1011110111 10010100101 1011110111 0111110101 11010100101 11110011111 0001010111 1001010101 01001010111 1101010111 0101110100 1111001111 1001011101 11011100011 110001 1111 1110110101 1001010111 1110010111 1101011011 0101110110 1101011101 1111010011 0101111111 1111110111 1001111100 0101111100 1111111101 1101111111 1101011110 11 11010101 1101011111 0110011111 1101111111 1001010101 010011101 0110110100 1011111100 1101011101 011111 1110 1100010111 1111111101 110001 1 01010111 110000110 11010101 111101010 1 011101001 110101110 10010011 110111010 1 01011101 110111110 11010101 110101010 1 11010101 010101110 11011011 111111110 1 01010101 110001110 11010111 0101001010 1 11110101 111101100 11111101 110101010 1 11010111 110101010 11001111 010101010 1 01010111 111011010 01110001 010101010 1 11000101 110101010 11001101 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 297
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 91
- 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; my, to, and, i, s are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, but are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines liberty, brown, her are repeated).
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