This is an analysis of the poem The Crazy Woman that begins with:
I shall not sing a May song.
A May song should be gay. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaBa BaXX XacX Xc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 011101 1101010 110101 1101010 100111 11100101 111100 1101010 011111 10001010 1111010 0100010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; song is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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