This is an analysis of the poem Any Wife To Any Husband that begins with:
My love, this is the bitterest, that thou---
Who art all truth, and who dost love me now... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb X ddeffe X ggacca X hhiddi b fXbeeb b iidbbd X ccjffj X kkicci X jjlddl e jjhfXX b iihmmh X Xaneen X XXdjjX X oobddb X XXljjl X ddbhhb X cXaooX X ddajja X Xljppj X aadiid XXddbjjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100010011 1111111111 1111111101 1111011111 0111111100 1111101101 1 1110011111 0101111101 0100110101 1111111111 1110110111 1011110011 1 1111111111 1011110101 1011111101 0010010101 1011110111 1001111111 1 0110011111 1111011101 11001000001 111001001011 0101011001 1111110111 1 1111001111 1110111110 01010100101 1111010101 1100011100 1101011101 1 1001010001 1001111111 1111110101 1111010101 11110101001 11010100101 1 1101011101 0110111101 1111010111 1111011111 1110010111 0111111001 1 1101111111 0111010101 0101111101 1001001101 1111111101 11101101001 1 11010101011 0111010111 0111111111 1011111101 1110100011 1101111101 1 1100010111 101010001101 1011110001 01011011111 1101011110 00010111010 1 0011001111 0101110111 1101110101 0001000111 1101010101 1111111111 1 1101010001 1111110011 1111111111 1001110101 1101011111 0111010011 1 0101011110 1101010101 1001000111 0101110101 1101010111 01111101010 1 1111011111 1111111101 0100010101 1100011111 1100011101 1111110111 1 1110111111 01001101000 1011010011 1101110011 1001110101 1011000111 1 1110110001 0110011101 1111111110 1011010101 1100110111 1001111111 1 1011000111 1111010100 1101010111 1101010111 1101010111 0111010111 1 1111111111 1100010101 0101111111 0011110111 1011111100 0101111111 1 11111100110 0111111111 1111110111 1111010101 1011010101 11001110011 1 1111010011 1111011111 0101111011 1111010101 0001010111 1111111011 1 1111010101 0111011111 1111111101 1011111111 0101010101 1111110010
- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 146
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; love, i, because, and, mine, why are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, the, because, thy are repeated.
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