This is an analysis of the poem Washerwife that begins with:
The aged Queen who passed away
Had sixty servants, so they say;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc aadd bbeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111101 11010111 11010101 110111 01110101 01111111 11010111 111101 01110111 11010111 11010101 111001 01111111 01111111 10011111 11111101 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, i are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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