This is an analysis of The Wife by Lesbia Harford.
He's out of work!
I tell myself a change should mean a chance,…
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
and

