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

Because you cannot pluck the flower,
You pass the sweet scent by;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb cdbd Xbdb edXd afgf hifi fbgb bfcf fjbj kfgf ckfk efkf Xlfl fmlm khfh fhgh gXjb XfXf fgeg fhjh gaca Xccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011101010 110111 01110101 101101 11010101 100101 11010110 111101 1010111101 111111 11010111 110101 01100001 010101 110011010 101101 011011110 110101 001010100 111101 11110111 0111111 11110101 011101 11011101 111101 11011101 010111 11010101 110111 11110101 010101 11111001 010101 010000101 010101 111011100 0101001 11001111 010111 11001111 010101 01010111 010111 11011111 110101 11111111 000101 110111111 110111 10010111 1100101 10010111 000101 10010111 110111 11010111 110101 01010111 110101 11010101 010101 11110001 110101 11110111 010100 11110101 110111 111111100 110111 11010101 1110001 11011111 010101 11011111 010101 10001111 101101 11011101 010101 01011111 111110 11001101 110100 10110101 111101 111100110 110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, for, spare, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of A Woman's Mood;
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