This is an analysis of the poem Man And Wife that begins with:
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
the rising sun in war paint dyes us red;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccaaadcedfgccdfeg Xaaafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111101 0101011111 0111010111 0101110100 11011111001 101101001 01001100111 111111 1011 0111010001 0101010101 1111011101 100111011111 10011011 1111 1101 1001001 0101010111 1111 11010101 1011 010101001001 110101111 1011 1100110101 111001 1010100 11001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
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