This is an analysis of the poem Woman to Man that begins with:
Lightning hits the roof,
shoves the knife, darkness, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcXcbdXdXedXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101 10110 1001 1111101 1110111 1111101 000111 1111001 111101 111010 1101 1101010 11011 1110101 1101 101110111 11110 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
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More information about poems by Ai Ogawa
- Analysis of Motherhood, 1951
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