This is an analysis of the poem Becoming A Nun that begins with:
For Jennifer Josephy
On cold days...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abacdeee acfbghfi fbXXgXXaa aecah ihX XXXead
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,9,5,3,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100100 111 0010001000 010010110 101 01010 01 0111 001 111 01 101001 10111 101010 101110 1001100001 1101100 11 1110101 10011 1001010 1011110 11010010 111011 111101010 01010 111 11101101 1110101111 1110100101 10100101 1110 10101110 10101 11 11011011100 110101010 0101010101 010 110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, their, don't, the are repeated.
The author used the same word on at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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