This is an analysis of the poem A Musician's Wife that begins with:
Between the visits to the shock ward
The doctors used to let you play...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcde cdddb fdgcg gafde dgdXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100011 01010111 1010110 110101010 101001101 11111110 1011001110 1010111 110101011 011111101 11011111 1101101011 10011010101 1001111 1011010011 11111110110 1101100111 01011110010 001010111111 1111111 10111001 1101011 0101011010 10101010101 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; at is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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