This is an analysis of the poem Wives By The Dozen that begins with:
O Death how thou spoil'st the best project of life,
Said Gabriel, who still as he bury'd one wife,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011001 110011111011 1010010010010 11011001001 11101101011 110011111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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.
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