This is an analysis of the poem Three Wives Of A Mandarin that begins with:
Lawful wife.
There is still some wine left in the chalice,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X Abac d AXdd c Acab d aXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101 1011110010 10111010010 101010101 00101010010 101 1011110010 1010111110 10100001010 10101010100 1 1011110010 10101011101 101011001 100101101010 100 1011110010 1011101110 1011101010 11101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 91
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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