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

Go sleep, my sweetie—rest—rest!
Oh soft little hand on mother's breast! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb cXcdceXfegdhibjifeg ffdd jajeeakfffjclailbliciihlg dfmXgbgbncfbo ffi fbggeic nepmiqbfefibbfaggggrbefif gblgikaac sibggfjrtfrodgag dojkjflegd egoaeocXngsibliosgtiggigbfpcgebfqlgffabffimmfcjfjqkXfaafaffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,19,4,25,13,3,7,25,9,16,10,61,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111011 111011101 111010111 1011111 1111110111 11111011000 1001010101 10110111011 11101111011 00111111110 0101010111 101101001 110 01001100101 1101011111 11010111001 0100111100 11011100010 01010100111 11111101001 11001100101 11110111110 000101 11010111 11110101 111001 1011 1111 0101000100 1111001111 100100101010 10111111110 10010111110 0011010011 1001111101 0100110101 1101011101 1011111101 1101111111 10011000101 1101011001 1011001101 1101111111 1001011101 1101010101 10010010101 11110101111 1101001101 1111111111 10111110001 01001010101 0100010 1111 1101011101 11111101101 11100111110 1011110111 010010101110 1111111001 01110100110 010101110010 01110010101 110100100111 1101001010010 1001111011 11110000101 0111001111 1101011111 0101111101 11110101011 1111111101 1101010011 1101010110 10111100100 010101 1001 11010110110 1111011011 1101100101 10010011001 1111010100 10111101010 111001110101 11100100100110 0111010111 01100110100 1101101111 1011010011 101011001001 111100110010 1101010101 1101111111 1100011011 11110110101 11010010101 1011111101 11111001010 10110110101 1001010001 01 1100101 0111000111 11011101011 0101111011 0101010101 0001010101 111111001010 11101110100 10110101111 1011001101 11001011111 0111110011 1001011011 1101111101 11010111101 1110111011 101110100101 111101110 1111110101 0111111101 1001011100 11011011101 01001011011 111110101001 10010010011 11010010101 10011101010 1001011101 110100101001 11110100111 01011011001 0111010111 1111010110 11010100101 111001 10110 01010111001 1111010101 1111101101 11111101100 1001010111 1110011111 10011101100 1011110101 01001011100 1111110101 01010100100 1101010111 1101110001 1101011111 11110101001 1111001101 010010101101 110111010 101111011010 101100101010 1100011111 1100110110 10010101110 101011000001 11010001101 11110010111 11110101011 10011000111 110100101110 01001010101 1111010101 0100101001110 1111010101 1111110011 11110101001 11011111001 1101110111 11100110110 110110111 100111110101 1101011101 0111110111 1101011001 1001111111 1011110001 11110101001 1110111111010 1111111101 01001111100 1101110100 11010111 11110111 1111 1001 1001 10101011 110101101 111101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 195
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me, my, her, coo, i, we, your, and, us, our, of, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words oh, coo, is, poor, we, no, your, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines true, one are repeated).

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