This is an analysis of the poem Woman! that begins with:

Place the white man on Afric's coast,
Whose swarthy sons in blood delight,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabcbcdada ebebffff gagahchX bbbbbfbf gfgfedeX afafafXdgdgdgdgdgdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,8,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111101 11010101 10110101 11110101 11010101 01011101 10010101 11111101 00110101 01011101 110010111 11000101 11110101 11110111 11011101 01011101 110011011 11110101 11010101 01111111 10011101 11101101 11010101 11011101 01100101 110111011 10110101 11010101 10010101 01010111 10110111 10110101 11110101 11111101 11101101 11010101 10010101 010100101 01110101 01110101 010011111 00110101 10011101 11011110 10010111 110011101 01011101 01010101 11011101 10110001 11010101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11010101 110010101 10010101 11110101 01010111 11010111 10111101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; him, may, her, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.

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