This is an analysis of the poem Chorus Of Women that begins with:

They're always abusing the women,
As a terrible plague to men:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXaXbcbcdXdabeXXaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010010 10100101 111010110 101001101 01110111 1100101 111111101 0110111 111111101 1111111 111010010 0101101 111001010 11101001 11110110 101101 001110010 110101 011111110 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
  • Average number of words per stanza: 135
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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