This is an analysis of the poem Woman With Girdle that begins with:
Your midriff sags toward your knees;
your breast lie down in air, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcdXeXXcXaadbdaaXeecaXaXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 111101 1101001 1111 11010101 11101011 101110 10111010 11110110 11101110 1000101 110010101 11011110 1110 11010101 101110101 111100110 1011111 101110 10110110 10101 111010 10110001 111 010001 1101101001 1001111 0010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 860
- Average number of words per stanza: 146
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, over are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words your, down, over are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines cushions is repeated).
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- summary of Woman With Girdle;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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