This is an analysis of the poem A Woman’s Apology that begins with:
In the green darkness of a summer wood,
Wherethro' ran winding ways, a lady stood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb aaa ccX ddd aaa dXd bXb aaa eee fff ggg hhh aaa ddd iii jjj aaa jjj kkX jjj eee aaa fff aaa lll eee eee bbb kkk ffX eee hhh eee aaa aaa jjj aaa mmm fff ggX fff ccc fff nnX aaa eeX fffXccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0011000101 10011010101 1001010101 0101110101 1011011101 0111010111 1111101111 1011001111 1011010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010100 1100111111 1101110101 1111110111 1111010111 1001111111 1111111100 1101110111 11110100110 10001110101 1101110101 11010111010 1111010101 0111111101 0111010101 0101110011 1100110101 01110101001 0101110101 0101111111 1101010111 1101010101 11111101100110101 1101111101001001 11101111110101 11010010111111 10010111101001 0100110111001101 10111111111001 111110101100111 10111111011011 111101111111011 010010010010001001 10110111000100101 00111101101111 1111100100100111 10100111111101001 011110111111111 11110101110101111 10100111101011011 10110100101100111 10110110101101001 101001001011001001 110010101101101 110010101101111 10100111011011101 101001001011011 010011111111011 1010110101101001 100111101001001 1010011011111111 11111001011101001 1111101111111111 111010111101111 1110111100101 11101101101111001 1010111110011111 10100111111111101 1101100011111101 11101111011001111 1111001101001101 1111100111101111 111011110100001 1111011110110111 11101101011011101 011011001110101101 111001011011111011 111110010001001011 01110101000101001 1110101101111011 110011100100101 101001010011011011 1011111111110101 101001001000100101 1011100101010101 1111111011010101 0100111001101011 010101111010100010011 1110010110001011101 1101101111010001 1101101011011001 111011010101001001 0111110001 10110100111 110101110001 1011110111 1101010101 1011001010111 1101110101 1011000101 110001110101 1111110111 0101000101 100101010101 11100111111 1101010101 110101010101 11110001001 1111000101 1111010100111 0111010101 1011110111 1111101100101 11110101001 1001010011 1101101110101 1101010111 0101010101 110101110001 11111111001111111 11001001001001001 101101001011111001 0111011101 0101010101 110111010111 0111000101 1110110101 110111010111 0101111111 1111011111 111101011101 1011011101 1001111111 1111011100100 0101101101 1111111001 011111111101 1101110101 1111111111 110111111111 1111010001 0101000101 100101110101 1101011101 1101111101 01010101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 49
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 56 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, and, she, to, that, we, his, you, with, never, of, your, love are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, 'tis, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase leaned connects the lines.
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