This is an analysis of The Wife Of Flanders by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered,
Where I had seven sons until to-day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeb bfbf cgcg XeXe dhdh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111111100110 1111010101 01010111110 0011011111 11011101010 0110011111 1101101001010 1101011001 11111101110 10101011111 10110101010 11111111101 10010111111 0011110101 10010111111 1101111101 11111111010 1011011111 11111100010 1111110111 01011111110 1101110101 11011111010 01011000111 11010101010 1111010110 11110111010 1111011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, you, for, that, should, how, pay, i
Anaphora
how
