This is an analysis of the poem Endurance that begins with:
YOU never hear a woman boast
Of her endurance, yet I vow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXddedfbXb caXaXgagXcac XgggaXacXafa egfgeaXaaeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 00100111 0100110101 11010111 11111101 01011111 010101001 01010101 01010101 01111011 011010111 111011101 01111100 11011111 10111110 11011111 11011101 110101001 11010101 100101001 010110101 11010011 10011101 11010101 11011111 11110100 11010101 11011101 111111111 101101010 11111111 10010101 01011111 11101101 11111111 11010101 11010111 11011111 101001101 11110111 11110101 01011101 10011101 11011101 11011111 11010111 11010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; an' is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, an' are repeated.
The author used the same word an' at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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