This is an analysis of the poem A Woman's Love that begins with:

There are times a woman's love
Fer a man stands out, I guess, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacded XbXbXefe gfXfdbcb bghgedhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 1011111 11100111 1011101 1110101 1010101 10101001 1111101 1111111 1010101 1010111 10111001 1011111 1010111 1010111 1110110 1010101 1010111 0010100 1010101 1010101 1111111 11100101 10011001 1011111 1011111 1011100 1011111 1110101 1010111 0110101 1010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; fer is repeated.

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