A Woman On The Dump by Debora Greger: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem A Woman On The Dump that begins with:

Is it peace,
Is it a philosopher’s honeymoon, one finds...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXb fgfe abXb Xaba acbb bghh dXcbXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001 000010010111 101 1010 100101111010 011101000101 0010010110110 001101 0111011001 100101010 001100010100101 011010101 0010110101 001100001010 11010010010101 01001111100 0010110010100 00111001100 0001000101110 111010101 001101100101 0111111 10001000101 100101011 100111010 100001010010 100101010 1101011 10100101001 1000111001 0010100011 101110111 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, to are repeated.

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

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  • summary of A Woman On The Dump;
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  • history of its creation;
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