This is an analysis of the poem The Female God that begins with:
We curl into your eyes-
They drink our files and have never drained :... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcX XaaX cXXa XaXX baXbXacbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110011 111111101 00110011 10101101110 011101 111011 111110101 11110100011 10101010101 1101111000 001010111001 11110100110 110100 0111110011 1110110101010 1111010101 11010101 11110100101 110010001001 1101010111 11110011 110011 11111101101001 11
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; you, our, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, our are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines world is repeated).
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