This is an analysis of The Wife by Lesbia Harford.

He's out of work!
I tell myself a change should mean a chance,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacbbcdbbdeffe
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 1101 1111011101 1111110001 1101110101 1111 1111000111 1111111101 1101010111 1011 1101110111 0111011101 1111010101 1101 1111010111 1111010101 1001011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, like

Anaphora

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