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

FOR a woman's face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land of dark night,
For this memory of one mouth and a forehead they go on in...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010101010111011011 1010001110101110011101111010111 001001001011000010111101010010100111011 0010010010110010010010111111100111001110101110101110101101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
  • Average number of words per stanza: 128
  • Amount of lines: 4
  • Average number of symbols per line: 150 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 32
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, of, on, and, for, women, in, horizon are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the are repeated.

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