This is an analysis of the poem What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner Or Later that begins with:

Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with.
And with whom they breakfast with and sup with....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXddefegXhihiXiXcjXjbebfekgk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111101101010 1011100110 1101001000100 10110100 111101100001 1111110100111 1111001101011111 101001011001001 111111001001 11111111011101010 101101010111010101 1010010111010 1100100101100111110 10101001010110010111 10010 1111111010100111 1010110 1110101111011011111 11101110101101110 11111101001011110 1111101101101010011 11111111101001010 00101110010110 100111010101000111 111001010 111101001011010100 1111110110010 111101010011111101 1111100110101101 10111010 1010111010101 11111010010011010 100100010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1885
  • Average number of words per stanza: 348
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, they, or, to, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines with is repeated).

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