This is an analysis of the poem Place For A Third that begins with:
Nothing to say to all those marriages!
She had made three herself to three of his. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcdceefX bcdgXghiifjhegagkdafabXlll bdadmXfbjinomclaXdde ljkbokdkegibgnmbXg liXXeeie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,26,20,18,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011100 1111010100 0111010101 1101111111 11010001001 11000100101 11110001001 1110010001 11110101011 0011110111 111101110100 1011111101 01001111010 0111110111 1101110101 010100100010 1100111100 0101010001 10111101010 11010001110 01111111010 0111010101 0011011101 1011011101 1101010110 110110101010 1111010111 0100110101 11110101010 0101010111 11010111010 11110111001 1110010011 11001111110 10111101010 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 01110101010 01010101010 01010100110 1001010101 01110101010 110101011010 0101010101 11110100011 1101010101 110100010100 1100111101 1011111101 1111111111 1111111111 11110111010 11110100010 1111011111 1111011111 1111011110 1101010101 0101010101 1100010101 0111011101 11010111011 1101010111 1110110001 110101101010 01011101010 01010011001 1111110111 01011101001 1111110001 11000100010 0110010101 1011011010 0011110111 0111110111 11010111010 10101110011 10011101010 1011011101 010100101010 1111010101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3764
- Average number of words per stanza: 692
- Amount of lines: 87
- 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, three, she, in, burial, row, he, cared, her are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cared is repeated).
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- summary of Place For A Third;
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