This is an analysis of the poem Sexism that begins with:
The happiest moment in a woman's life
Is when she hears the turn of her lover's key...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbdXXe afcefddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01001000101 01110100101 0011010001 1110011000 1011010001 1111010101 1011011111 11010101 0100100011 0111101 0010101101 10101111 0101111 11001011 01101101 11001111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sexism;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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