This is an analysis of the poem Femina Contra Mundum that begins with:
The sun was black with judgment, and the moon
Blood: but between... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXa bcXc bded fegX gXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0111010101 1101 11011101111 0101 1111110101 01110 0111111101 10010 11011101101 10011 1101111111 1111 11110100010 101001 1101011111 11110 1011110101 0111 1110011011 1110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; i is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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