This is an analysis of the poem A Convalescin' Woman that begins with:
A convalescin' woman does the strangest sort o' things,
An' it's wonderful the courage that a little new strength brings;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaa ddeeffXX gggXddhh bbcciihh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01000101010111 101000101010111 1010101011101101 111110011010101 111111101010001 101011111011101 111010101111001 111111100011101 111010101110101 101111101111101 11010101010111 111111101110011 111010101111101 01111101110101 101111010101011 111100111111111 11100010111111 111010101110101 111111101010111 111110101110110 111011101111111 01000101111111 111111101110111 111110101111101 111110101110111 1100100011010101 111010101111111 110111101110101 11110101110111 111010100011101 101110101011101 111110101001111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 506
- Average number of words per stanza: 102
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 13
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, an', her, th', weeks, to, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an' is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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