This is an analysis of the poem A Spiritual Woman that begins with:
Close your eyes, my love, let me make you blind;
They have taught you to see ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcc aaabXaddddXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 111101 1001101010101 010100001001 1110100 010010110100 111100111111 01101011 10100111111101 1010110101101 1100101 1111111011011 111011111111 11111101 1110111111110011 111110101100011101 111101011100 111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 418
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, you, and, so are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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