This is an analysis of the poem Suburban Dames that begins with:
All day long
We sew fine muslin up for you to wear, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abba cccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111 1111011101 1011011111 0101 111 01001111110 111111110 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and is repeated.
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