This is an analysis of the poem Pauline Barrett that begins with:
Almost the shell of a woman after the surgeon's knife!
And almost a year to creep back into strength,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdaeeXadXedfdcbXffXdf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010010100101 11101011001 10101100100 11110101 11010010 101010111 11111011 11111011 111011001001011 11101011 1101101110 10110111 11110110 1101001110 11110110 001011001010 1110110111 111101011101 1101110111 11100101101 10101111011 110111101100 11001010010 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 996
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines eyes is repeated).
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