This is an analysis of the poem An Appeal To Women that begins with:

O ye women! WIMMIN! WEEMIN!!
See our tears repentant streamin'!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXabbba ccXXXXdd eXfggfhh eefdXfgg XdXgggggggXg gggiigjj XekiiklX ddmddmdd XXXlnnnldddl gghiiXjj iinmmnoo jjXddXaa ggXpdXXpjjjp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,12,8,8,8,12,8,8,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010 11101010 10101010 1001101 11101000 11010000 10110000 1010111 11110110 00100010 10101110 1110101 10110010 10100110 00101011111 11101010 00111010 10101110001 101000101010001 011010100010101 10100110 10101110 00100010101 10101110 10101010 0010111001 101010110011001 101011101110101 111000010 10101010 10101010101 10011010 11101110 00101010101 111010100110011 11111101110101 11101010 11101010 10101011 101001 11100010 11011010 10101010 0110011 11111110 10101010 11001110 1101001 10101010 10101010 10111110001 10001010 10100110 10111110101 1111101010101010 1110001010101000 101111100 11111110 11111111111 10011010 10101110 10100010101 1101010100111 1010101110100010 11101010 11101010 00111010101 101011010 11100010 11101010111 11110111111110 11010001010101 11101010 11101010 10110100 1001101 11101111 1001110001 101010001 1010101 11111010 10101010 01111010 1010101 10101010 11101110 10111010001 1011001110 10101110 10101110010 110010100011101 111010100010101 10101010 10001010 11101010101 01111010 00101010 10111010111 101010101110111 111100101010101 10101110 11111010 1010101001 10111010 11101110 01101010100 1011011000110101 111111101011101 11101010 10111010 11100010 1011011 110101010 11111010 10101010 1011101 10001010 11101110 11111010 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 351
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his, to, ye, you, it are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, it are repeated).

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