This is an analysis of the poem To A Lady Knitting that begins with:

Little woman, hourly sitting,
Something for a soldier knitting,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbaaaaccdd aaeeffccffgg gbffhhggffii AAaajjaaffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 10101010 1010111 1010101 10111110 10101010 11111010 01101010 1110101 0110101 10101010 100101010 01011010 11101010 1110101 1110111 11101010 10100110 11111110 10101010 10111110 10010110 10011010 10110010 11111010 11101010 10111010 00100010 10101011 10111111 11101010 10101110 11101110 10111110 11101010 11101110 10101010 10101010 11101110 11101110 10101010 100100110 101001110 10010110 01101110 11101010 10011010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; to, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, something, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, it are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.

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