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

THE Separated Women
Go lying through the land,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcded afgfedbd Ahihejkj AkXkakXk AlXlgaba hgcgcgXh cljXbjaj aieikhXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010 110101 1111010 110101 11010110 110101 1111110 110101 0111110 110101 1111010 110111 1101010 111101 1101110 110111 0101010 110001 1101010 110101 0111110 111101 1101011 110101 0101010 110101 1101110 110101 0110110 010111 1111010 010111 0101010 110111 0111110 111111 1111110 110101 1100110 101101 1011010 110111 1101110 110100 1101010 111101 1111110 110101 0101010 110001 1101111 011101 0101010 010111 01110100 110101 0101010 101001 1101010 010101 1111011 110111 0101100 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word know at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Separated Women;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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