This is an analysis of the poem In The Person Of Womankind that begins with:
A SONG APOLOGETIC
Men, if you love us, play no more... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXbcc ddddaa efefff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 10111111 01110011 0111110110 11110111 11111101 10111101 11111111 01110111 11100111 11010111 11110101 10011011 11010101 010100111 11010111 11111101 11011111 01011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; we is repeated.
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