This is an analysis of the poem The Woman At The Washtub that begins with:
The Woman at the Washtub,
She works till fall of night;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbcccc Adedfcec Agegcfef ahihjcac ikjkjXAc clclfhehbXbiXheX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 111101 0111110 011101 0101010 0101001 0101010 100101 0101011 110101 0101110 010011 0100110 011101 0100010 110101 0101011 111001 1101110 011001 0101010 01010010 1111110 0100010 1101011 111101 0111110 110001 0111110 111101 1100011 110001 1111010 111101 1101010 011001 0101010 1101110 0101011 110001 1101010 110101 0100110 010101 1101010 110101 1101010 111100 1110010 110111 1110010 110101 1110010 111101 1101110 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; and, i, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, 0, the, and, 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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