This is an analysis of the poem For Every Woman that begins with:
This is for every woman
that cries herself to sleep...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXb Aaaa AXcd AXdX cXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 00110010 110101 11010111 110101001 00110010 101010101 110101110 110010100010 00110010 110110 110101000 11111101 00110010 11101010 111111 101101111 11100 1010011 01101010 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; that is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yourself is repeated).
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- history of its creation;
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