This is an analysis of the poem Woman To Man that begins with:
You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well,
How could the hand be enemy of the arm, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcadeXaaffefbaggeXcafbdcdffdgXedXdfXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111111 11010100001 1111010111 1100011001 1101011111 1111110010 1101111001 1100111110 0111111101 0111110011 11110100111 1101010111 1110100111 0101010101 0101010101 11010101011 0101010001 0101010101 1111010101 1011011101 1101010001 1101010111 1101001111 0100110111 0100110111 1111111101 1111010011 1111001101 0101010001 1101011101 1010000111 1000000110 1011111111 1111111101 1001111101 1101110100 1111111101 0101111101 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1658
- Average number of words per stanza: 309
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, and, we, you, our, your, praise are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soil is repeated).
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- summary of Woman To Man;
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