This is an analysis of the poem Ye Wives Who Scold & Fishes Sell that begins with:

Ye Wives who scold fishes sell,
Or sing sell your fruit,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcXadadefefbgbghXhijhjhidgdXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 11111 11010101 101101 01011101 110101 11110101 111111 01010111 110111 11111001 11111 11011111 110101 11110101 110101 01010111 0101110 010011101 101010 01111101 111101 01010111 010111 10010101 011111 11011101 011101 01011101 110111 10110110 1101001 1110111 0111010 10010101 01011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1073
  • Average number of words per stanza: 217
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; ye is repeated.

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