This is an analysis of the poem The Women Of The West that begins with:

They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,
The houses in the busy streets where life is never still, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eebb eecc ddbb ffggXccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110110101010101 01000101110101 01000101011101 11110100010001 01111100010101 1011111010111001 011010111010101 1001010100010101 001111110110101 001010100011110 001110100010101 100100101010001 01111101010011 01010101110101 111101101111101 010101100101001 011101001101010 1011010011101010 11010101110001 01111101010001 10110101110101 11010100110101 11110101011101 01000101010001 11111101111111 11110100111101 111101111110101 01110100010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 248
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, of, in, we are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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