This is an analysis of the poem A Question that begins with:
Women wear trousers
To trail round the shops;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Abab Acdc aXaa caaX cdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110 01101 10010 11011 10110 110110 110110 110110 110010 111010 110010 110110 110110 11001 110110 01011 0110101 1001 111110 11001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 93
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word women at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of A Question;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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