This is an analysis of the poem Southern Cross that begins with:
I wanted you, nameless Woman of the South,
No wraith, but utterly—as still more alone ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabacdee aX fffdf gbacac XXdeX XbgeX Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,5,6,5,5,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010001 11110011101 010111 1101000111 11 1001010010 01010 1001 1101 1101 1101110101 110010101 10010010001 11011101010 10001010111 1011011 1010 10011101010 1101010111 01011111010 01010101001 1101010001 11101100100000 00100100010 010100 111000101 110101101 100111100010 101011011 01110010101 11101011 010101010101 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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.
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