This is an analysis of the poem Widows that begins with:
My mother's playing cards with my aunt,
Spite and Malice, the family pastime, the game...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb abXccdce XfXa efXd bcX XXccXceb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,8,4,4,3,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101011 111001001101 111011010 11011011 011101110001 110101010001010 11110011010 11110110 10100111011 001110 1110110101 1110111101 0101110100 011011101110 011010010 11011100111001 0001011110 01101 100101101101101 1110101101010 11111110 1111010101 11010111101101 011101100110 110110110 1110010010 1101010101111010 01010111111010001 0111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to, they, that's are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines summer is repeated).
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- summary of Widows;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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