This is an analysis of the poem Paul's Wife that begins with:

To drive Paul out of any lumber camp
All that was needed was to say to him,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefghbijeadXklekmXliehghnankhiokkphXij ogeaegqlgnhedchnfrksmtqomhXlmglehhlgeeXeksofpitncqefnofrcXetakohobkektbbbbqjaekog oeiselhbXldklecerkskekXgjkodrrlrrkdt
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,81,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 1111010101 1001111101 1101010111 11000101001 1001110101 11010111010 10011111001 11010111111 1101011111 1101000100 11110000001 1101110101 1001111011 11100100010 1111001101 1001000101 1011010111 0100110011 1111110111 01011101011 101010111 1101110111 1001111111 1101010100 1101011101 111101010 110101001 0111010111 01110111010 0101011111 10010101010 01111111010 10010111010 1111111101 11110011010 11010001010 1111000100 0101111111 1001010111 11010100010 1111110101 1111010101 1101011101 1111000101 1101011011 1101111100 11001101001 1101010111 0101010101 01011101010 1111011101 11010111011 1001011101 1001111011 1111110101 1111010100 1011010101 11010101010 0101101101 01011111110 10101110111 1010110101 01110101011 0101011101 1111110001 11110101010 101100101100 1011011101 1011011001 0101011101 1111010001 0101111011 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001110101 1011010110 11111101010 11001011010 110100111011 1101010101 01011111110 1001111111 11110100101 01011111010 1111010100 1101110011 11011000110 010011011101 0101011101 0110010111 1111110101 01000111010 1101110011 1100000111 11010101010 1011110101 1101010001 10110111110 1101011011 1011010111 1011010100 11010100010 1101110011 1101010101010 1011110101 0101010101 01110101010 1101011111 11110111 01001100011 1111010101 1010110101 100111000111 1101000101 1011110101 0111011001 1111110001 1111000111 01011101010 1101000101 11010111010 1111011101 0011011001 01010101010 11110111010 1111010101 0101011100 11011011010 10010101110 1101010100 1101011101 0011100001 1010011101 1101011101 10010111001 1101001101 11110111010 11101111010 10110001010 0101011101 10110111011 111101011111 11010011110 11010000010 1011010101 1011111111 0101010001 11110100010 1001011100 11010001010 1001011110 1111010100 10010110111 1001000101 0101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1681
  • Average number of words per stanza: 332
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, one, he, load, they, it, and, at, drink, of, from, paul, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, the, to, something, at, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines pine, it, him, her are repeated).

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