This is an analysis of the poem Woman On The Field Of Battle that begins with:
Where hath not a woman stood,
Strong in affection's might? a reed, upborne... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb cdcd bXbe dede afaf Xedada ghgh ijij bhbh kdkd fefe acac flfl mcmc n fanaXgbgb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 1010010110 111010010 101101 1111 101101 1101 101101 0111 110101 1111 110101 10011 110101 1101 110101 1101 111101 0101 100 1 101 1111 1001011 1001 110111 10011 1101111 1111 100101 0101 1111001 0011 110101 1011 11001011 1111 101101 0101 101101 11011 10111 1010 101111 1001 100101 1101 111101 0101 110101 1101 110101 0101 111101 0011 101111 1101 1011110 1 111 1101010 0111 100101 0111 101111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- 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; why is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words why, and are repeated.
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