This is an analysis of the poem The Wife A-Lost that begins with:
1 Since I noo mwore do zee your fe{'a}ce,
Up ste{'a}rs or down below,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabCaX XXdXbCAX XdXdbeAe XXXdbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 1101101 1110010010 1110111 01010111 110101 11110111 111111 11110111 010101 11101111 11011 010101111 110101 11110111 111111 11101101 1101101 11011110 010101 01010111 110101 11110111 111111 1111110110 0101100 1111110110 011111 01011111 110110 1001111 011100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 291
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; 'a, ce are repeated.
The author used the same word since at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word hwome at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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