This is an analysis of The Woman And The Wife by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
I--THE EXPLANATION
"You thought we knew," she said, "but we were wrong.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccb dedeeX X cfgccffc hahggX
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,6,1,8,6,
- Metre: 101010 1011101110101 0111011111 1111111001 0111111101 1111010011 1001111111 0100101001 11000101001 101111111111 1111010111 1111110111 1111110101 1101110101 01110111110 1010100 10101110010 11111111111 1101011100 1101111101 1001011111 1100010111 1001000110 1011011101 10001111101 1101111101 1111011101 11111110101 1101010001 111101111010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 30
Repeated words/phrases
we, i, me, you
Anaphora
you, whatever
