This is an analysis of the poem Rapunzel that begins with:

A woman
who loves a woman ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AABcdefdghgiidejagekebcHeahhlekaXmlkdankneofbnkanHnodokjhAABaXpnkaldaaadqghdcaXiXhqnXaeXXfndecXXCXapmeooqHjhkaencdCXdnknkXnlnommlmdndqadXkndannqdjagfhnoXacHcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 158,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 11010 00101 011 1010 11110 1001 1111 1100010 010101 11110 11101 1111 110111 11111110 1101001 111101001 111101101010 11110110110 10111101 01100110 101010110 110111111 11 010101010 11110010 01111111 11111 11110111 111111010 101101 1111 111011 111001 110011101 111101 110011 110111010001 1111 10000101 1111 1000110 1011 111110011 111 11001 110101 111010101 111 1111111 11110010 1101 11001 1101 11110111 111011 11 010 11010 00101 11101010 1100110 010101101 010010111 1011011 01101010 111101010010 10010101 01010011011010 10111111 1111101100010 11001010111 1110101101 10101010 101111 011110 01011011 11100010 01011010 111101 110111010 110111101 1101101 10001011 1100101010 1011011 11010100 110101100 01011011010 01100101001 10101000111 1111010101 11101010110 1100010101 101101100110 1011001011 1001001111 100110011011 0111101010 1111011 11011101 011010 1100111 1110010 10101 1111111 11111011 0100111 11100100100 1110110101 1111110100 10010011010101 1101010101 01110111 1001001111 1111110101 100111 010101 10101 1001101 11011101 100111101 111000010 1110000101 110100101001 1010 11011 11111000101 111100101 010010111101 1101001001 1111001001 11000010001 10110110 010011101 1111001010 1101100100101 111011110111 11110011010 0111011101 11101101 111100011101 100100111 01110001 1110011101 1011011 1011 1101111 110100 0111 011010 011101 111010 011001001 10010111111 11 11011100101 01110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 973
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; touch, for, of, have, i, your, we, they, as, child, her, me, and, his, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, we, they, with, she, what, yet, and, he, just are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines woman, me are repeated).

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