This is an analysis of the poem Vii: Song: That Women Are But Mens Shaddows that begins with:
Follow a shaddow, it still flies you,
Seeme to flye it, it will pursue:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaBBcbcXBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100111 10100001 110101011 10011011 11110101 101010011 111101110 1111111 111101110 11101111 11110101 101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; you, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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