This is an analysis of the poem The Pale Woman that begins with:
I spoke to the pale and heavy-lidded woman, and said:
O pale and heavy-lidded woman, why is your cheek... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaa cddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110101011 1111010101011 11011111101111 1010101111101 101111111001 1110010010101010 01111010111101 11111111011101 111110010101010 111111110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, pale, woman, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dead, desire are repeated).
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