This is an analysis of the poem You Would Be Naked that begins with:

You would be naked on the wet and pink heather,
like those women one reads of in school,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacdXXbXdXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 110101011110 111011001 01101101010 11101100101 011111111 100011101001 1100111101 010100010011 010101111 1011100010 0111010010 1101110011110 111010111 001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of are repeated.

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