This is an analysis of the poem A Wife In London (December, 1899) that begins with:
I--The Tragedy
She sits in the tawny vapour ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XXbcb abbab a cddcd ceece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,5,5,1,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100 11001010 101011100 10110111 101010 111101 01001110 1010001 1100100101 11110 111000111 10100 101001110 110111 110011101 1010010 1110111 11101010 1100101 101111111 001010 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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