This is an analysis of the poem How Like A Woman that begins with:
I WANTED you to come to-day
Or so I told you in my letter... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXcX adadaeaeXcccccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 111110110 11011101 111111110 11111101 1111001110 11111110 110101010 11111101 011111010 11111101 1100001010 11110101 111111010 11011111 011101010 01111101 110101010 11110101 010101010 11111111 110100010 01011101 101111010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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