This is an analysis of the poem Consorting With Angels that begins with:
I was tired of being a woman,
tired of the spoons and the post, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccdXcbae fbgXeehehbXeb XhXibiiagaXg fgdbeXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,13,12,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010010 10001101 10011111 1000010101 1011111110 1001011101 01110101 101100101 11011010011 1111000101 111101 11100 11010 10111101110 01111010101 111101011 101000101101 11100110 10011011001 110011010010 11101001001 010110 01001 110101 11110 1011010010 101010011 11111010111011 10110101 11110101 11001010001010 1111010 111001 111010101 1111010 11000100 0111100010 111111100 1010101 111111 0111101 011010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 364
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; tired, of, and, i, one are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tired, and, one, i'm are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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