This is an analysis of the poem Just A Woman that begins with:

YOU ask me why I love her;
Not a charm can you discover! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcXbaadccdaaeffXcccaac eeghhgffcffciicaac
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 10111010 111 0110110 11101100 111 1011110 10101110 101 1101010 10101110 001 1101110 1001110 011 1101110 00111010 1100 1111110 10100010 101 1101010 10100110 101 0100010 10101010 101 1111010 1101010 111 1011010 1101110 001 10111010 10111010 111 0101010 1111110 101 11111010 11101010 101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 567
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; you, not are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines with is repeated).

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