This is an analysis of the poem Domestic Work, 1937 that begins with:
All week she's cleaned
someone else's house,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcdef e gdfbgdX X afgch X gXhc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,1,7,1,5,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 11101 11011 001010 10110 11011 0101110 11011 1111010 111 11000110 1010011 1011001 100101 100101011 100010100 101111 10110 101111 10001010 0110101 101101 111101 11001 11010111 0111010
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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