This is an analysis of the poem Another Man's Woman that begins with:

My lover has failed to come to the trysting place,
It is perhaps that his mind is dazed, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefX ecdcddXbaagd bcbhdagibafd fjkdXjXX lXdfXfdbc lkkhfcafda hd lalXmbbm aidXXmcmcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,12,12,8,9,10,2,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110100101 000110101 101111001010 110111011101 10101011 00101101 1000 01100101 111001010 10101101 01010 01010101 0110101101 1101 1101 001001 1111 01000 001 1111001 11010 1010001 011100101 011101010 0110 11110 111 1010 111101 01011101 01100100 10011101 0111 0111 110100101010 1010 10101 01010 00100100 1110101 110101 0101010 101010 1011 1010001 1011101 10101101 1001010 101110101 1111 10010101 0111010 10001 11110 10011 011101001 0010 001001 11100010 111010100 1101 00010 11001 1111 111111 111110 101 111 11010101 1111 0010101 11011111010101 001010001 111001 1101 10101 1101 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, perhaps, that, like, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, the, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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