This is an analysis of the poem March 1 that begins with:
I could stare for hours
at her, the woman stepping...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXbcXXXXcaXaXbXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111110 1001010 10011 1100101 0111111 011110 0101011 111111 10111010 010100 0110100 00110110 1101110 101010101 1010010100 10110011 1010000100 001000011000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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