This is an analysis of the poem A Woman Waking that begins with:
She wakens early remembering
her father rising in the dark ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbabcdbeadefcXcfgdcXecXhfccbgghdciibe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100100 01010001 1001001 11011100 1011011001 101111 110110 0111001 111101 1010111 110101 0101011 00110110 011100101 1100111 111011 1011011 1011010 11000110 00100011 001100110 101001010 1101001 1111011 01111 1111110 01111 0010111 1010111 01101110 1110011 11111011 1111010 101110 0110001 1110110 01010110 11010101 01001001 01100101 01111100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1307
- Average number of words per stanza: 242
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, they, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
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